10 ideas
6211 | Laughter is a sudden glory in realising the infirmity of others, or our own formerly [Hobbes] |
1212 | Replacing timbers on Theseus' ship was the classic illustration of the problem of growth and change [Plutarch] |
7906 | When the Buddha reached the highest level of insight, he could detect no self in the world [Ashvaghosha] |
6213 | A man cannot will to will, or will to will to will, so the idea of a voluntary will is absurd [Hobbes] |
6208 | Conceptions and apparitions are just motion in some internal substance of the head [Hobbes] |
6209 | There is no absolute good, for even the goodness of God is goodness to us [Hobbes] |
6210 | Life has no end (not even happiness), because we have desires, which presuppose a further end [Hobbes] |
6212 | Lust involves pleasure, and also the sense of power in pleasing others [Hobbes] |
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] |