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Single Idea 7893

[filed under theme 1. Philosophy / A. Wisdom / 3. Wisdom Deflated ]

Full Idea

What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow: our life is the creation of our mind.

Gist of Idea

Our life is the creation of our mind

Source

Anon (Dham) (The DhammaPada [c.250 BCE], §1.1)

Book Ref

'The DhammaPada', ed/tr. Mascaro,Juan [Penguin 1973], p.35


A Reaction

I may adopt this as a second epigraph for the database. This idea records the subjective view, which now comes up against evolutionary psychology. Maybe philosophy is opposed to science, because it is committed to exploring the subjective view?