13 ideas
3269 | If your life is to be meaningful as part of some large thing, the large thing must be meaningful [Nagel] |
4187 | 'There is nothing without a reason why it should be rather than not be' (a generalisation of 'Why?') [Schopenhauer] |
4192 | All necessity arises from causation, which is conditioned; there is no absolute or unconditioned necessity [Schopenhauer] |
4190 | All understanding is an immediate apprehension of the causal relation [Schopenhauer] |
3270 | Justifications come to an end when we want them to [Nagel] |
3488 | Freud treats the unconscious as intentional and hence mental [Freud, by Searle] |
4191 | What we know in ourselves is not a knower but a will [Schopenhauer] |
5689 | Freud and others have shown that we don't know our own beliefs, feelings, motive and attitudes [Freud, by Shoemaker] |
21368 | The knot of the world is the use of 'I' to refer to both willing and knowing [Schopenhauer] |
23950 | Freud said passions are pressures of some flowing hydraulic quantity [Freud, by Solomon] |
22344 | Freud is pessimistic about human nature; it is ambivalent motive and fantasy, rather than reason [Freud, by Murdoch] |
3268 | If a small brief life is absurd, then so is a long and large one [Nagel] |
4189 | Time may be defined as the possibility of mutually exclusive conditions of the same thing [Schopenhauer] |