16 ideas
19579 | The history of philosophy is just experiments in how to do philosophy [Novalis] |
19583 | Philosophy only begins when it studies itself [Novalis] |
21916 | Philosophers can't be religious, and don't need to be; philosophy is perilous but free [Schopenhauer] |
19581 | A problem is a solid mass, which the mind must break up [Novalis] |
19584 | Whoever first counted to two must have seen the possibility of infinite counting [Novalis] |
22025 | Novalis thought self-consciousness cannot disclose 'being', because we are temporal creatures [Novalis, by Pinkard] |
22067 | Poetry is true idealism, and the self-consciousness of the universe [Novalis] |
19585 | Every person has his own language [Novalis] |
21924 | As the subject of willing I am wretched, but absorption in knowledge is bliss [Schopenhauer] |
19582 | Morality and philosophy are mutually dependent [Novalis] |
21915 | To deduce morality from reason is blasphemy, because it is holy, and far above reason [Schopenhauer] |
22027 | Life isn't given to us like a novel - we write the novel [Novalis] |
19580 | If the pupil really yearns for the truth, they only need a hint [Novalis] |
8412 | A causal interaction is when two processes intersect, and correlated modifications persist afterwards [Salmon] |
8413 | Cause must come first in propagations of causal interactions, but interactions are simultaneous [Salmon] |
8411 | Instead of localised events, I take enduring and extended processes as basic to causation [Salmon] |