61 ideas
3600 | Slow and accurate thought makes the greatest progress [Descartes] |
7834 | Great philosophies are confessions by the author, growing out of moral intentions [Nietzsche] |
3601 | Most things in human life seem vain and useless [Descartes] |
3602 | Almost every daft idea has been expressed by some philosopher [Descartes] |
7080 | Metaphysics divided the old unified Greek world into two [Nietzsche, by Critchley] |
3603 | Methodical thinking is cautious, analytical, systematic, and panoramic [Descartes, by PG] |
3612 | Clear and distinct conceptions are true because a perfect God exists [Descartes] |
11090 | Why do we want truth, rather than falsehood or ignorance? The value of truth is a problem [Nietzsche] |
3610 | Truth is clear and distinct conception - of which it is hard to be sure [Descartes] |
7079 | Nietzsche resists nihilism through new values, for a world of becoming, without worship [Nietzsche, by Critchley] |
14361 | Lewis says indicative conditionals are truth-functional [Lewis, by Jackson] |
8434 | In good counterfactuals the consequent holds in world like ours except that the antecedent is true [Lewis, by Horwich] |
3605 | We can believe a thing without knowing we believe it [Descartes] |
1583 | In morals Descartes accepts the conventional, but rejects it in epistemology [Roochnik on Descartes] |
3607 | In thinking everything else false, my own existence remains totally certain [Descartes] |
3617 | I aim to find the principles and causes of everything, using the seeds within my mind [Descartes] |
2878 | We see an approximation of a tree, not the full detail [Nietzsche] |
3611 | Understanding, rather than imagination or senses, gives knowledge [Descartes] |
20140 | We shouldn't object to a false judgement, if it enhances and preserves life [Nietzsche] |
3606 | I was searching for reliable rock under the shifting sand [Descartes] |
3604 | When rebuilding a house, one needs alternative lodgings [Descartes] |
2877 | Morality becomes a problem when we compare many moralities [Nietzsche] |
3618 | Only experiments can settle disagreements between rival explanations [Descartes] |
3615 | Little reason is needed to speak, so animals have no reason at all [Descartes] |
20355 | The ranking of a person's innermost drives reveals their true nature [Nietzsche] |
3609 | I am a thinking substance, which doesn't need a place or material support [Descartes] |
2291 | A thought comes when 'it' wants, not when 'I' want [Nietzsche] |
2871 | Wanting 'freedom of will' is wanting to pull oneself into existence out of the swamp of nothingness by one's own hair [Nietzsche] |
3608 | I can deny my body and the world, but not my own existence [Descartes] |
3613 | Reason is universal in its responses, but a physical machine is constrained by its organs [Descartes] |
3616 | The soul must unite with the body to have appetites and sensations [Descartes] |
20381 | It is psychology which reveals the basic problems [Nietzsche] |
3614 | A machine could speak in response to physical stimulus, but not hold a conversation [Descartes] |
2860 | The most boring and dangerous of all errors is Plato's invention of pure spirit and goodness [Nietzsche] |
1568 | Nietzsche felt that Plato's views downgraded the human body and its brevity of life [Nietzsche, by Roochnik] |
2883 | Noble people see themselves as the determiners of values [Nietzsche] |
23440 | Nietzsche's judgement of actions by psychology instead of outcome was poisonous [Foot on Nietzsche] |
2875 | That which is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil [Nietzsche] |
2868 | Nature is totally indifferent, so you should try to be different from it, not live by it [Nietzsche] |
2882 | Morality originally judged people, and actions only later on [Nietzsche] |
2872 | In the earliest phase of human history only consequences mattered [Nietzsche] |
2885 | The noble soul has reverence for itself [Nietzsche] |
20134 | Moralities extravagantly address themselves to 'all', by falsely generalising [Nietzsche] |
1581 | Greeks elevate virtues enormously, but never explain them [Descartes] |
2881 | Virtue has been greatly harmed by the boringness of its advocates [Nietzsche] |
20382 | The four virtues are courage, insight, sympathy, solitude [Nietzsche] |
2879 | In ancient Rome pity was considered neither good nor bad [Nietzsche] |
2859 | The idea of the categorical imperative is just that we should all be very obedient [Nietzsche] |
2884 | The morality of slaves is the morality of utility [Nietzsche] |
2880 | The greatest possibilities in man are still unexhausted [Nietzsche] |
2876 | The thought of suicide is a great reassurance on bad nights [Nietzsche] |
7078 | The freedom of the subject means the collapse of moral certainty [Nietzsche, by Critchley] |
6869 | Nietzsche thinks the human condition is to overcome and remake itself [Nietzsche, by Ansell Pearson] |
2874 | Man is the animal whose nature has not yet been fixed [Nietzsche] |
20137 | The great person engages wholly with life, and is happy to endlessly relive the life they created [Nietzsche] |
20139 | Only aristocratic societies can elevate the human species [Nietzsche] |
20373 | A healthy aristocracy has no qualms about using multitudes of men as instruments [Nietzsche] |
22394 | Democracy diminishes mankind, making them mediocre and lowering their value [Nietzsche] |
9419 | A law of nature is a general axiom of the deductive system that is best for simplicity and strength [Lewis] |
16686 | God has established laws throughout nature, and implanted ideas of them within us [Descartes] |
2867 | Christianity is Platonism for the people [Nietzsche] |