15 ideas
7914 | To try to be wise all on one's own is folly [Rochefoucauld] |
7910 | Pursue truth with the urgency of someone whose clothes are on fire [Ashvaghosha] |
7118 | La Rochefoucauld's idea of disguised self-love implies an unconscious mind [Rochefoucauld, by Sartre] |
7906 | When the Buddha reached the highest level of insight, he could detect no self in the world [Ashvaghosha] |
7912 | Judging by effects, love looks more like hatred than friendship [Rochefoucauld] |
7915 | Supreme cleverness is knowledge of the real value of things [Rochefoucauld] |
7917 | Realising our future misery is a kind of happiness [Rochefoucauld] |
7913 | Virtue doesn't go far without the support of vanity [Rochefoucauld] |
7916 | True friendship is even rarer than true love [Rochefoucauld] |
9299 | We are bored by people to whom we ourselves are boring [Rochefoucauld] |
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] |
1513 | The Egyptians were the first to say the soul is immortal and reincarnated [Herodotus] |
7908 | At the end of a saint, he is not located in space, but just ceases to be disturbed [Ashvaghosha] |