8 ideas
1597 | Thales was the first western thinker to believe the arché was intelligible [Roochnik on Thales] |
21753 | If we look at the world rationally, the world assumes a rational aspect [Hegel] |
21974 | The world seems rational to those who look at it rationally [Hegel] |
3013 | Nothing is stronger than necessity, which rules everything [Thales, by Diog. Laertius] |
18555 | The beautiful is that from which nothing can be subtracted and to which nothing can be added [Alberti] |
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] |