9 ideas
291 | Don't assume that wisdom is the automatic consequence of old age [Plato] |
16641 | Whiteness does not exist, but by it something can exist-as-white [Aquinas] |
22170 | Senses grasp external properties, but the understanding grasps the essential natures of things [Aquinas] |
22169 | Initial universal truths are present within us as potential, to be drawn out by reason [Aquinas] |
22168 | Minds take in a likeness of things, which activates an awaiting potential [Aquinas] |
7906 | When the Buddha reached the highest level of insight, he could detect no self in the world [Ashvaghosha] |
293 | Being unafraid (perhaps through ignorance) and being brave are two different things [Plato] |
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] |