10 ideas
7910 | Pursue truth with the urgency of someone whose clothes are on fire [Ashvaghosha] |
579 | Cratylus said you couldn't even step into the same river once [Cratylus, by Aristotle] |
578 | Cratylus decided speech was hopeless, and his only expression was the movement of a finger [Cratylus, by Aristotle] |
20921 | How can we state relativism of sweet and sour, if they have no determinate nature? [Theophrastus] |
7906 | When the Buddha reached the highest level of insight, he could detect no self in the world [Ashvaghosha] |
5990 | Theophrastus doubted whether nature could be explained teleologically [Theophrastus, by Gottschalk] |
7904 | The first stage of trance is calm amidst applied and discursive thinking [Ashvaghosha] |
7905 | The Buddha sought ultimate reality and the final goal of existence in his meditations [Ashvaghosha] |
7909 | The Eightfold Path concerns morality, wisdom, and tranquillity [Ashvaghosha] |
7908 | At the end of a saint, he is not located in space, but just ceases to be disturbed [Ashvaghosha] |