23 ideas
8093 | Seek wisdom rather than truth; it is easier [Joubert] |
8095 | We must think with our entire body and soul [Joubert] |
6211 | Laughter is a sudden glory in realising the infirmity of others, or our own formerly [Hobbes] |
8107 | The love of certainty holds us back in metaphysics [Joubert] |
8099 | The truths of reason instruct, but they do not illuminate [Joubert] |
19433 | The universe is infinitely varied, so the Buridan's Ass dilemma could never happen [Leibniz] |
8098 | Truth consists of having the same idea about something that God has [Joubert] |
19434 | There may be a world where dogs smell their game at a thousand leagues [Leibniz] |
8101 | To know is to see inside oneself [Joubert] |
8094 | The imagination has made more discoveries than the eye [Joubert] |
6213 | A man cannot will to will, or will to will to will, so the idea of a voluntary will is absurd [Hobbes] |
6208 | Conceptions and apparitions are just motion in some internal substance of the head [Hobbes] |
8103 | A thought is as real as a cannon ball [Joubert] |
8100 | Where does the bird's idea of a nest come from? [Joubert] |
6209 | There is no absolute good, for even the goodness of God is goodness to us [Hobbes] |
6210 | Life has no end (not even happiness), because we have desires, which presuppose a further end [Hobbes] |
8096 | He gives his body up to pleasure, but not his soul [Joubert] |
8104 | What will you think of pleasures when you no longer enjoy them? [Joubert] |
8097 | Virtue is hard if we are scorned; we need support [Joubert] |
8106 | In raising a child we must think of his old age [Joubert] |
6212 | Lust involves pleasure, and also the sense of power in pleasing others [Hobbes] |
8105 | We can't exactly conceive virtue without the idea of God [Joubert] |
8102 | We cannot speak against Christianity without anger, or speak for it without love [Joubert] |