9 ideas
| 6211 | Laughter is a sudden glory in realising the infirmity of others, or our own formerly [Hobbes] |
| 15312 | We get the idea of power by abstracting from ropes, magnets and electric shocks [Priestley] |
| 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] |
| 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] |
| 20948 | Human cultures are organisms which grow, and then fade and die [Spengler, by Bowie] |
| 6212 | Lust involves pleasure, and also the sense of power in pleasing others [Hobbes] |
| 15311 | Attraction or repulsion are not imparted to matter, but actually constitute it [Priestley] |