26 ideas
| 192 | Only one thing can be contrary to something [Plato] |
| 23825 | We seek truth only because it is good [Weil] |
| 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] |
| 5987 | Alcmaeon was the first to say the brain is central to thinking [Alcmaeon, by Staden, von] |
| 191 | Everything resembles everything else up to a point [Plato] |
| 203 | Courage is knowing what should or shouldn't be feared [Plato] |
| 23826 | Beauty, goodness and truth are only achieved by applying full attention [Weil] |
| 202 | No one willingly and knowingly embraces evil [Plato] |
| 23833 | The good is a nothingness, and yet real [Weil] |
| 23808 | There are two goods - the absolute good we want, and the reachable opposite of evil [Weil] |
| 193 | Some things are good even though they are not beneficial to men [Plato] |
| 200 | People tend only to disapprove of pleasure if it leads to pain, or prevents future pleasure [Plato] |
| 197 | Some pleasures are not good, and some pains are not evil [Plato] |
| 204 | Socrates is contradicting himself in claiming virtue can't be taught, but that it is knowledge [Plato] |
| 188 | Socrates did not believe that virtue could be taught [Plato] |
| 189 | If we punish wrong-doers, it shows that we believe virtue can be taught [Plato] |
| 23831 | The essence of power is illusory prestige [Weil] |
| 23830 | A group is only dangerous if it endorses an abstract entity [Weil] |
| 23809 | Our only social duty is to try to limit evil [Weil] |
| 23807 | The collective is the one and only object of false idolatry [Weil] |
| 23810 | Charity is the only love, and you can feel that for a country (a place with traditions), but not a nation [Weil] |
| 23811 | If effort is from necessity rather than for a good, it is slavery [Weil] |
| 24043 | Soul must be immortal, since it continually moves, like the heavens [Alcmaeon, by Aristotle] |
| 23765 | The soul is the intrinsic value of a human [Weil] |