3 ideas
7903 | The six perfections are giving, morality, patience, vigour, meditation, and wisdom [Nagarjuna] |
Full Idea: The six perfections are of giving, morality, patience, vigour, meditation, and wisdom. | |
From: Nagarjuna (Mahaprajnaparamitashastra [c.120], 88) | |
A reaction: What is 'morality', if giving is not part of it? I like patience and vigour being two of the virtues, which immediately implies an Aristotelian mean (which is always what is 'appropriate'). |
1515 | Pythagoreans believe it is absurd to seek for goodness anywhere except with the gods [Iamblichus] |
Full Idea: The thinking behind Pythagorean philosophy is that people behave in an absurd fashion if they try to find any source for the good other than the gods. | |
From: Iamblichus (Life of Pythagoras [c.290], 137) |
1863 | If the soul achieves well-being in another life, it doesn't follow that I do [Aquinas] |
Full Idea: Even if soul achieves well-being in another life, that doesn't mean I do or any other human being does. | |
From: Thomas Aquinas (Super Epistolam Pauli Apostoli [1272]) |