24 ideas
7914 | To try to be wise all on one's own is folly [Rochefoucauld] |
192 | Only one thing can be contrary to something [Plato] |
190 | If asked whether justice itself is just or unjust, you would have to say that it is just [Plato] |
20184 | The only real evil is loss of knowledge [Plato] |
20185 | The most important things in life are wisdom and knowledge [Plato] |
335 | Do the gods also hold different opinions about what is right and honourable? [Plato] |
7118 | La Rochefoucauld's idea of disguised self-love implies an unconscious mind [Rochefoucauld, by Sartre] |
191 | Everything resembles everything else up to a point [Plato] |
203 | Courage is knowing what should or shouldn't be feared [Plato] |
7912 | Judging by effects, love looks more like hatred than friendship [Rochefoucauld] |
202 | No one willingly and knowingly embraces evil [Plato] |
7915 | Supreme cleverness is knowledge of the real value of things [Rochefoucauld] |
193 | Some things are good even though they are not beneficial to men [Plato] |
7917 | Realising our future misery is a kind of happiness [Rochefoucauld] |
197 | Some pleasures are not good, and some pains are not evil [Plato] |
200 | People tend only to disapprove of pleasure if it leads to pain, or prevents future pleasure [Plato] |
7913 | Virtue doesn't go far without the support of vanity [Rochefoucauld] |
188 | Socrates did not believe that virtue could be taught [Plato] |
204 | Socrates is contradicting himself in claiming virtue can't be taught, but that it is knowledge [Plato] |
189 | If we punish wrong-doers, it shows that we believe virtue can be taught [Plato] |
7916 | True friendship is even rarer than true love [Rochefoucauld] |
9299 | We are bored by people to whom we ourselves are boring [Rochefoucauld] |
336 | Is what is pious loved by the gods because it is pious, or is it pious because they love it? (the 'Euthyphro Question') [Plato] |
337 | It seems that the gods love things because they are pious, rather than making them pious by loving them [Plato] |