12 ideas
22764 | Ordinary speech is not exact about what is true; we say we are digging a well before the well exists [Sext.Empiricus] |
304 | Beautiful things must be different from beauty itself, but beauty itself must be present in each of them [Plato] |
22762 | Some properties are inseparable from a thing, such as the length, breadth and depth of a body [Sext.Empiricus] |
12155 | Statements of 'relative identity' are really statements of resemblance [Perry] |
16120 | Knowing how to achieve immortality is pointless without the knowledge how to use immortality [Plato] |
22759 | Fools, infants and madmen may speak truly, but do not know [Sext.Empiricus] |
22760 | Madmen are reliable reporters of what appears to them [Sext.Empiricus] |
303 | Say how many teeth the other has, then count them. If you are right, we will trust your other claims [Plato] |
22763 | We can only dream of a winged man if we have experienced men and some winged thing [Sext.Empiricus] |
302 | What knowledge is required to live well? [Plato] |
301 | Only knowledge of some sort is good [Plato] |
305 | Something which lies midway between two evils is better than either of them [Plato] |