30 ideas
| 13560 | A wise man is not subservient to anything [Seneca] |
| 6675 | The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing [Pascal] |
| 22011 | The first principles of truth are not rational, but are known by the heart [Pascal] |
| 3654 | The pineal gland links soul to body, and unites the two symmetrical sides of the body [Descartes, by PG] |
| 4015 | For Descartes passions are God-given preservers of the mind-body union [Descartes, by Taylor,C] |
| 4313 | Are there a few primary passions (say, joy, sadness and desire)? [Descartes, by Cottingham] |
| 23989 | There are six primitive passions: wonder, love, hatred, desire, joy and sadness [Descartes, by Goldie] |
| 6681 | We only want to know things so that we can talk about them [Pascal] |
| 20037 | Merely willing to walk leads to our walking [Descartes] |
| 6676 | Painting makes us admire things of which we do not admire the originals [Pascal] |
| 13558 | The supreme good is harmony of spirit [Seneca] |
| 6680 | It is a funny sort of justice whose limits are marked by a river [Pascal] |
| 6677 | Imagination creates beauty, justice and happiness, which is the supreme good [Pascal] |
| 16763 | We don't die because the soul departs; the soul departs because the organs cease functioning [Descartes] |
| 6678 | We live for the past or future, and so are never happy in the present [Pascal] |
| 13559 | I seek virtue, because it is its own reward [Seneca] |
| 13561 | Virtue is always moderate, so excess need not be feared [Seneca] |
| 13562 | It is shameful to not even recognise your own slaves [Seneca] |
| 4016 | Descartes makes strength of will the central virtue [Descartes, by Taylor,C] |
| 13564 | There is far more scope for virtue if you are wealthy; poverty only allows endurance [Seneca] |
| 13563 | Why does your wife wear in her ears the income of a wealthy house? [Seneca] |
| 13565 | If wealth was a good, it would make men good [Seneca] |
| 20732 | If man considers himself as lost and imprisoned in the universe, he will be terrified [Pascal] |
| 6682 | Majority opinion is visible and authoritative, although not very clever [Pascal] |
| 13557 | Unfortunately the majority do not tend to favour what is best [Seneca] |
| 6679 | It is not good to be too free [Pascal] |
| 7455 | Pascal knows you can't force belief, but you can make it much more probable [Pascal, by Hacking] |
| 7457 | Pascal is right, but relies on the unsupported claim of a half as the chance of God's existence [Hacking on Pascal] |
| 7456 | The libertine would lose a life of enjoyable sin if he chose the cloisters [Hacking on Pascal] |
| 6684 | If you win the wager on God's existence you win everything, if you lose you lose nothing [Pascal] |