38 ideas
8093 | Seek wisdom rather than truth; it is easier [Joubert] |
3600 | Slow and accurate thought makes the greatest progress [Descartes] |
8095 | We must think with our entire body and soul [Joubert] |
3601 | Most things in human life seem vain and useless [Descartes] |
3602 | Almost every daft idea has been expressed by some philosopher [Descartes] |
8107 | The love of certainty holds us back in metaphysics [Joubert] |
3603 | Methodical thinking is cautious, analytical, systematic, and panoramic [Descartes, by PG] |
8099 | The truths of reason instruct, but they do not illuminate [Joubert] |
3612 | Clear and distinct conceptions are true because a perfect God exists [Descartes] |
8098 | Truth consists of having the same idea about something that God has [Joubert] |
3610 | Truth is clear and distinct conception - of which it is hard to be sure [Descartes] |
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] |
3611 | Understanding, rather than imagination or senses, gives knowledge [Descartes] |
8101 | To know is to see inside oneself [Joubert] |
3606 | I was searching for reliable rock under the shifting sand [Descartes] |
3604 | When rebuilding a house, one needs alternative lodgings [Descartes] |
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] |
8094 | The imagination has made more discoveries than the eye [Joubert] |
3609 | I am a thinking substance, which doesn't need a place or material support [Descartes] |
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] |
8103 | A thought is as real as a cannon ball [Joubert] |
3614 | A machine could speak in response to physical stimulus, but not hold a conversation [Descartes] |
8100 | Where does the bird's idea of a nest come from? [Joubert] |
8096 | He gives his body up to pleasure, but not his soul [Joubert] |
8104 | What will you think of pleasures when you no longer enjoy them? [Joubert] |
8097 | Virtue is hard if we are scorned; we need support [Joubert] |
1581 | Greeks elevate virtues enormously, but never explain them [Descartes] |
19589 | The whole point of a monarch is that we accept them as a higher-born, ideal person [Novalis] |
8106 | In raising a child we must think of his old age [Joubert] |
16686 | God has established laws throughout nature, and implanted ideas of them within us [Descartes] |
8105 | We can't exactly conceive virtue without the idea of God [Joubert] |
8102 | We cannot speak against Christianity without anger, or speak for it without love [Joubert] |