48 ideas
8093 | Seek wisdom rather than truth; it is easier [Joubert] |
326 | For relaxation one can consider the world of change, instead of eternal things [Plato] |
8095 | We must think with our entire body and soul [Joubert] |
315 | Philosophy is the supreme gift of the gods to mortals [Plato] |
8107 | The love of certainty holds us back in metaphysics [Joubert] |
8099 | The truths of reason instruct, but they do not illuminate [Joubert] |
306 | Nothing can come to be without a cause [Plato] |
8098 | Truth consists of having the same idea about something that God has [Joubert] |
324 | Before the existence of the world there must have been being, space and becoming [Plato] |
20364 | The apprehensions of reason remain unchanging, but reasonless sensation shows mere becoming [Plato] |
321 | For knowledge and true opinion to be different there must be Forms; otherwise we are just stuck with sensations [Plato] |
12042 | Plato's Forms were seen as part of physics, rather than of metaphysics [Plato, by Annas] |
307 | Something will always be well-made if the maker keeps in mind the eternal underlying pattern [Plato] |
318 | In addition to the underlying unchanging model and a changing copy of it, there must also be a foundation of all change [Plato] |
317 | The universe is basically an intelligible and unchanging model, and a visible and changing copy of it [Plato] |
334 | Only bird-brained people think astronomy is entirely a matter of evidence [Plato] |
8101 | To know is to see inside oneself [Joubert] |
5962 | Plato says the soul is ordered by number [Plato, by Plutarch] |
8094 | The imagination has made more discoveries than the eye [Joubert] |
330 | No one wants to be bad, but bad men result from physical and educational failures, which they do not want or choose [Plato] |
3654 | The pineal gland links soul to body, and unites the two symmetrical sides of the body [Descartes, by PG] |
8103 | A thought is as real as a cannon ball [Joubert] |
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] |
8100 | Where does the bird's idea of a nest come from? [Joubert] |
20037 | Merely willing to walk leads to our walking [Descartes] |
316 | Music has harmony like the soul, and serves to reorder disharmony within us [Plato] |
16763 | We don't die because the soul departs; the soul departs because the organs cease functioning [Descartes] |
332 | One should exercise both the mind and the body, to avoid imbalance [Plato] |
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] |
328 | Everything that takes place naturally is pleasant [Plato] |
8097 | Virtue is hard if we are scorned; we need support [Joubert] |
4016 | Descartes makes strength of will the central virtue [Descartes, by Taylor,C] |
322 | Intelligence is the result of rational teaching; true opinion can result from irrational persuasion [Plato] |
8106 | In raising a child we must think of his old age [Joubert] |
331 | Bad governments prevent discussion, and discourage the study of virtue [Plato] |
310 | The creator of the cosmos had no envy, and so wanted things to be as like himself as possible [Plato] |
311 | The cosmos must be unique, because it resembles the creator, who is unique [Plato] |
325 | We must consider the four basic shapes as too small to see, only becoming visible in large numbers [Plato] |
327 | There are two types of cause, the necessary and the divine [Plato] |
314 | Heavenly movements gave us the idea of time, and caused us to inquire about the heavens [Plato] |
312 | Time came into existence with the heavens, so that there will be a time when they can be dissolved [Plato] |
309 | Clearly the world is good, so its maker must have been concerned with the eternal, not with change [Plato] |
308 | If the cosmos is an object of perception then it must be continually changing [Plato] |
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] |