20 ideas
343 | The unexamined life is not worth living for men [Socrates] |
18170 | The Axiom of Reducibility is self-effacing: if true, it isn't needed [Quine] |
8239 | If the King likes music then there is hope for the state [Mengzi (Mencius)] |
23398 | Human nature is naturally compassionate and good (as a 'sprout'), but people may not be good [Mengzi (Mencius), by Norden] |
23400 | Righteousness is extending the unthinkable, to reveal what must be done [Mengzi (Mencius)] |
344 | If death is like a night of dreamless sleep, such nights are very pleasant [Socrates] |
339 | Men fear death as a great evil when it may be a great blessing [Socrates] |
2 | We should not even harm someone who harms us [Socrates] |
345 | A good man cannot be harmed, either in life or in death [Socrates] |
23399 | Each correct feeling relies on an underlying virtue [Mengzi (Mencius)] |
346 | One ought not to return a wrong or injury to any person, whatever the provocation [Socrates] |
8235 | Should a coward who ran fifty paces from a battle laugh at another who ran a hundred? [Mengzi (Mencius)] |
341 | Wealth is good if it is accompanied by virtue [Socrates] |
8240 | A true king shares his pleasure with the people [Mengzi (Mencius)] |
8237 | Extend the treatment of the old and young in your family to the rest of society [Mengzi (Mencius)] |
347 | Will I stand up against the law, simply because I have been unjustly judged? [Socrates] |
8241 | Only put someone to death if the whole population believes it is deserved [Mengzi (Mencius)] |
8238 | Seeking peace through war is like looking for fish up a tree [Mengzi (Mencius)] |
8236 | Avoid the animals you are going to eat, as it is hard once you have got to know them [Mengzi (Mencius)] |
338 | Socrates is accused of denying the gods, saying sun is stone and moon is earth [Socrates, by Plato] |