24 ideas
23064 | So-called wisdom is just pondering things instead of acting [Cioran] |
23072 | Systems are the worst despotism, in philosophy and in life [Cioran] |
21552 | Common speech is vague; its vocabulary and syntax must be modified, for precision [Russell] |
23075 | A text explained ceases to be a text [Cioran] |
21551 | Empirical words need ostensive definition, which makes them egocentric [Russell] |
23066 | Negation doesn't arise from reasoning, but from deep instincts [Cioran] |
23077 | The word 'being' is very tempting, but in fact means nothing at all [Cioran] |
23068 | People who really believe anti-realism don't bother to prove it [Cioran] |
23073 | Convictions are failures to study anything thoroughly [Cioran] |
23078 | Opinions are fine, but having convictions means something has gone wrong [Cioran] |
3488 | Freud treats the unconscious as intentional and hence mental [Freud, by Searle] |
5689 | Freud and others have shown that we don't know our own beliefs, feelings, motive and attitudes [Freud, by Shoemaker] |
23076 | If people always acted without words we would take them for robots [Cioran] |
23950 | Freud said passions are pressures of some flowing hydraulic quantity [Freud, by Solomon] |
23065 | If only we could write like a reptile, of endless sensations and no concepts! [Cioran] |
21550 | Science reduces indexicals to a minimum, but they can never be eliminated from empirical matters [Russell] |
23071 | We could only be responsible if we had consented before birth to who we are [Cioran] |
23070 | We morally dissolve if we spend time with excessive beauty [Cioran] |
22344 | Freud is pessimistic about human nature; it is ambivalent motive and fantasy, rather than reason [Freud, by Murdoch] |
23074 | In anxiety people cling to what reinforces it, because it is a deep need [Cioran] |
23069 | Fear cures boredom, because it is stronger [Cioran] |
23062 | It is better to watch the hours pass, than trying to fill them [Cioran] |
23067 | Suicide is pointless, because it always comes too late [Cioran] |
23063 | The first man obviously found paradise unendurable [Cioran] |