9 ideas
21405 | Cicero sees wisdom in terms of knowledge, but earlier Stoics saw it as moral [Cicero, by Long] |
20871 | Unfortunately we choose a way of life before we are old enough to think clearly [Cicero] |
1597 | Thales was the first western thinker to believe the arché was intelligible [Roochnik on Thales] |
11946 | Propensities are part of a situation, not part of the objects [Popper] |
3013 | Nothing is stronger than necessity, which rules everything [Thales, by Diog. Laertius] |
6031 | The essence of propriety is consistency [Cicero] |
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] |