10 ideas
1597 | Thales was the first western thinker to believe the arché was intelligible [Roochnik on Thales] |
13191 | The properties of a thing flow from its essence [Leibniz] |
3013 | Nothing is stronger than necessity, which rules everything [Thales, by Diog. Laertius] |
536 | We should follow the law in public, and nature in private [Antiphon] |
1557 | To gain the greatest advantage only treat law as important when other people are present [Antiphon] |
540 | The way you spend your time will form your character [Antiphon] |
539 | Nothing is worse for mankind than anarchy [Antiphon] |
1494 | Thales said water is the first principle, perhaps from observing that food is moist [Thales, by Aristotle] |
1713 | Thales must have thought soul causes movement, since he thought magnets have soul [Thales, by Aristotle] |
1742 | Thales said the gods know our wrong thoughts as well as our evil actions [Thales, by Diog. Laertius] |