13 ideas
7914 | To try to be wise all on one's own is folly [Rochefoucauld] |
9254 | In philosophy the truth can only be reached via the ruins of the false [Prichard] |
18170 | The Axiom of Reducibility is self-effacing: if true, it isn't needed [Quine] |
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] |
9256 | I see the need to pay a debt in a particular instance, and any instance will do [Prichard] |
9257 | The complexities of life make it almost impossible to assess morality from a universal viewpoint [Prichard] |
7913 | Virtue doesn't go far without the support of vanity [Rochefoucauld] |
7916 | True friendship is even rarer than true love [Rochefoucauld] |
9255 | Seeing the goodness of an effect creates the duty to produce it, not the desire [Prichard] |
9299 | We are bored by people to whom we ourselves are boring [Rochefoucauld] |