25 ideas
6675 | The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing [Pascal] |
11211 | If a sound conclusion comes from two errors that cancel out, the path of the argument must matter [Rumfitt] |
11210 | Standardly 'and' and 'but' are held to have the same sense by having the same truth table [Rumfitt] |
11212 | The sense of a connective comes from primitively obvious rules of inference [Rumfitt] |
22011 | The first principles of truth are not rational, but are known by the heart [Pascal] |
7544 | Many people imagine that to experience is to understand [Goethe] |
7541 | Man never understands how anthropomorphic he is [Goethe] |
7543 | We gain self-knowledge through action, not thought - especially when doing our duty [Goethe] |
6681 | We only want to know things so that we can talk about them [Pascal] |
11214 | We learn 'not' along with affirmation, by learning to either affirm or deny a sentence [Rumfitt] |
7540 | Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws [Goethe] |
6676 | Painting makes us admire things of which we do not admire the originals [Pascal] |
6680 | It is a funny sort of justice whose limits are marked by a river [Pascal] |
6677 | Imagination creates beauty, justice and happiness, which is the supreme good [Pascal] |
6678 | We live for the past or future, and so are never happy in the present [Pascal] |
7538 | The happiest people link the beginning and end of life [Goethe] |
20732 | If man considers himself as lost and imprisoned in the universe, he will be terrified [Pascal] |
7542 | The best form of government teaches us to govern ourselves [Goethe] |
6682 | Majority opinion is visible and authoritative, although not very clever [Pascal] |
6679 | It is not good to be too free [Pascal] |
7539 | To get duties from people without rights, you must pay them well [Goethe] |
7455 | Pascal knows you can't force belief, but you can make it much more probable [Pascal, by Hacking] |
7457 | Pascal is right, but relies on the unsupported claim of a half as the chance of God's existence [Hacking on Pascal] |
7456 | The libertine would lose a life of enjoyable sin if he chose the cloisters [Hacking on Pascal] |
6684 | If you win the wager on God's existence you win everything, if you lose you lose nothing [Pascal] |