18 ideas
16123 | Whenever you perceive a community of things, you should also hunt out differences in the group [Plato] |
16125 | To reveal a nature, divide down, and strip away what it has in common with other things [Plato] |
16124 | No one wants to define 'weaving' just for the sake of weaving [Plato] |
16066 | Additional or removal of any part changes a thing, so people are never the same person [Epicharmus] |
5961 | The soul gets its goodness from god, and its evil from previous existence. [Plato] |
436 | A dog seems handsome to another a dog, and even a pig to another pig [Epicharmus] |
283 | The question of whether or not to persuade comes before the science of persuasion [Plato] |
282 | Non-physical beauty can only be shown clearly by speech [Plato] |
442 | Pleasures are like pirates - if you are caught they drown you in a sea of pleasures [Epicharmus] |
440 | Hands wash hands; give that you may get [Epicharmus] |
281 | The arts produce good and beautiful things by preserving the mean [Plato] |
441 | Against a villain, villainy is not a useless weapon [Epicharmus] |
22559 | Democracy is the worst of good constitutions, but the best of bad constitutions [Plato, by Aristotle] |
279 | Only divine things can always stay the same, and bodies are not like that [Plato] |
439 | God knows everything, and nothing is impossible for him [Epicharmus] |
16713 | Philosophers are the forefathers of heretics [Tertullian] |
6610 | I believe because it is absurd [Tertullian] |
443 | Human logos is an aspect of divine logos, and is sufficient for successful living [Epicharmus] |