10 ideas
1597 | Thales was the first western thinker to believe the arché was intelligible [Roochnik on Thales] |
5021 | An idea is analysed perfectly when it is shown a priori that it is possible [Leibniz] |
579 | Cratylus said you couldn't even step into the same river once [Cratylus, by Aristotle] |
3013 | Nothing is stronger than necessity, which rules everything [Thales, by Diog. Laertius] |
5020 | Our thoughts are either dependent, or self-evident. All thoughts seem to end in the self-evident [Leibniz] |
578 | Cratylus decided speech was hopeless, and his only expression was the movement of a finger [Cratylus, by Aristotle] |
5019 | Supreme human happiness is the greatest possible increase of his perfection [Leibniz] |
1494 | Thales said water is the first principle, perhaps from observing that food is moist [Thales, by Aristotle] |
1713 | Thales must have thought soul causes movement, since he thought magnets have soul [Thales, by Aristotle] |
1742 | Thales said the gods know our wrong thoughts as well as our evil actions [Thales, by Diog. Laertius] |