14 ideas
7914 | To try to be wise all on one's own is folly [Rochefoucauld] |
21900 | Deleuze relies on Spinoza (immanence), Bergson (duration), and difference (Nietzsche) [May] |
7118 | La Rochefoucauld's idea of disguised self-love implies an unconscious mind [Rochefoucauld, by Sartre] |
7912 | Judging by effects, love looks more like hatred than friendship [Rochefoucauld] |
7915 | Supreme cleverness is knowledge of the real value of things [Rochefoucauld] |
7917 | Realising our future misery is a kind of happiness [Rochefoucauld] |
7913 | Virtue doesn't go far without the support of vanity [Rochefoucauld] |
7916 | True friendship is even rarer than true love [Rochefoucauld] |
21898 | For existentialists the present is empty without the pull of the future and weight of the past [May] |
9299 | We are bored by people to whom we ourselves are boring [Rochefoucauld] |
21905 | Liberal theory starts from the governed, not from the governor [May] |
20887 | A rape disregards the status of being a person - but so does all assault [Foa] |
20888 | Rape of children is dreadful, but no one thinks children should have a right of consent [Foa] |
20889 | If men should lust and women shouldn't, that makes rape the prevalent sexual model [Foa] |