27 ideas
5896 | Speak the truth, for this alone deifies man [Pythagoras, by Porphyry] |
3051 | Pythagoras discovered the numerical relation of sounds on a string [Pythagoras, by Diog. Laertius] |
7973 | There is no longer anything on which there is nothing to say [Baudrillard] |
7975 | The task of philosophy is to unmask the illusion of objective reality [Baudrillard] |
7986 | Drunken boat pilots are less likely to collide than clearly focused ones [Baudrillard] |
7982 | Instead of thesis and antithesis leading to synthesis, they now cancel out, and the conflict is levelled [Baudrillard] |
7485 | For Pythagoreans 'one' is not a number, but the foundation of numbers [Pythagoras, by Watson] |
7974 | Without God we faced reality: what do we face without reality? [Baudrillard] |
21598 | Austin revealed many meanings for 'vague': rough, ambiguous, general, incomplete... [Austin,JL, by Williamson] |
7987 | Nothing is true, but everything is exact [Baudrillard] |
7978 | There is no need to involve the idea of free will to make choices about one's life [Baudrillard] |
7980 | In modern times, being useless is the essential aesthetic ingredient for an object [Baudrillard] |
3053 | Pythagoras taught that virtue is harmony, and health, and universal good, and God [Pythagoras, by Diog. Laertius] |
7983 | Good versus evil has been banefully reduced to happiness versus misfortune [Baudrillard] |
5244 | For Pythagoreans, justice is simply treating all people the same [Pythagoras, by Aristotle] |
7981 | Whole populations are terrorist threats to authorities, who unite against them [Baudrillard] |
7976 | People like democracy because it means they can avoid power [Baudrillard] |
7977 | Only in the last 200 years have people demanded the democratic privilege of being individuals [Baudrillard] |
7979 | The arrival of the news media brought history to an end [Baudrillard] |
7984 | Suicide is ascribed to depression, with the originality of the act of will ignored [Baudrillard] |
554 | Pythagoreans say things imitate numbers, but Plato says things participate in numbers [Pythagoras, by Aristotle] |
644 | For Pythagoreans the entire universe is made of numbers [Pythagoras, by Aristotle] |
375 | When musical harmony and rhythm were discovered, similar features were seen in bodily movement [Pythagoras, by Plato] |
638 | Pythagoreans define timeliness, justice and marriage in terms of numbers [Pythagoras, by Aristotle] |
553 | Pythagoreans think mathematical principles are the principles of all of nature [Pythagoras, by Aristotle] |
7985 | Pascal says secular life is acceptable, but more fun with the hypothesis of God [Baudrillard] |
7467 | The modern idea of an immortal soul was largely created by Pythagoras [Pythagoras, by Watson] |