Full Idea
Philosophy consists in the collection of rational arguments. [Philosophia ex rationum collatione constet]
Gist of Idea
Philosophy is the collection of rational arguments
Source
M. Tullius Cicero (Tusculan Disputations [c.44 BCE], IV.xxxviii.84)
Book Reference
Cicero: 'Tusculan Disputations', ed/tr. King,J.E. [Harvard Loeb 1927], p.423
A Reaction
A nice epigraph for this database. Philosophy is, I trust, a little more than that, because you don't just hide them away in a drawer. But if you arrange them nicely in a museum (a website, for example), not a lot more can be done.
Related Idea
Idea 19241 An idea on its own isn't an idea, because they are continuous systems [Peirce]