32 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] |
4424 | A warlike philosopher challenges problems to single combat [Nietzsche] |
192 | Only one thing can be contrary to something [Plato] |
7485 | For Pythagoreans 'one' is not a number, but the foundation of numbers [Pythagoras, by Watson] |
190 | If asked whether justice itself is just or unjust, you would have to say that it is just [Plato] |
20185 | The most important things in life are wisdom and knowledge [Plato] |
20184 | The only real evil is loss of knowledge [Plato] |
191 | Everything resembles everything else up to a point [Plato] |
203 | Courage is knowing what should or shouldn't be feared [Plato] |
3053 | Pythagoras taught that virtue is harmony, and health, and universal good, and God [Pythagoras, by Diog. Laertius] |
2886 | The distinction between egoistic and non-egoistic acts is absurd [Nietzsche] |
202 | No one willingly and knowingly embraces evil [Plato] |
193 | Some things are good even though they are not beneficial to men [Plato] |
4426 | A bad result distorts one's judgement about the virtue of what one has done [Nietzsche] |
197 | Some pleasures are not good, and some pains are not evil [Plato] |
200 | People tend only to disapprove of pleasure if it leads to pain, or prevents future pleasure [Plato] |
188 | Socrates did not believe that virtue could be taught [Plato] |
204 | Socrates is contradicting himself in claiming virtue can't be taught, but that it is knowledge [Plato] |
189 | If we punish wrong-doers, it shows that we believe virtue can be taught [Plato] |
5244 | For Pythagoreans, justice is simply treating all people the same [Pythagoras, by Aristotle] |
4425 | The overcoming of pity I count among the noble virtues [Nietzsche] |
20132 | To become what you are you must have no self-awareness [Nietzsche] |
20144 | Eternal recurrence is the highest attainable affirmation [Nietzsche] |
2889 | One repays a teacher badly if one remains only a pupil [Nietzsche] |
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] |
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] |
2887 | I am not an atheist because of reasoning or evidence, but because of instinct [Nietzsche] |
7467 | The modern idea of an immortal soul was largely created by Pythagoras [Pythagoras, by Watson] |