Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Geometrical Method and Metaphysics' and 'The DhammaPada'

expand these ideas     |    start again     |     specify just one area for these texts

---

11 ideas

1. Philosophy / A. Wisdom / 3. Wisdom Deflated

7893	Our life is the creation of our mind [Anon (Dham)]

11. Knowledge Aims / C. Knowing Reality / 3. Idealism / a. Idealism

7898	The world is just the illusion of an appearance [Anon (Dham)]

14. Science / D. Explanation / 2. Types of Explanation / g. Causal explanations

19398

Minds are best explained by their ends, and bodies by efficient causes [Leibniz]

22. Metaethics / B. Value / 2. Values / g. Love

7894	Hate is conquered by love [Anon (Dham)]

22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 3. Pleasure / f. Dangers of pleasure

7899	Even divine pleasure will not satisfy the wise, as it is insatiable, and leads to pain [Anon (Dham)]

23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 2. Elements of Virtue Theory / e. Character

7896	The foolish gradually fill with evil, like a slowly-filled water-jar [Anon (Dham)]

7897	The wise gradually fill with good, like a slowly-filled water-jar [Anon (Dham)]

23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 4. External Goods / d. Friendship

7895	Don't befriend fools; either find superior friends, or travel alone [Anon (Dham)]

25. Social Practice / E. Policies / 5. Education / b. Education principles

13304

Learned men gain more in one day than others do in a lifetime [Posidonius]

27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 1. Nature of Time / d. Time as measure

20820

Time is an interval of motion, or the measure of speed [Posidonius, by Stobaeus]

29. Religion / C. Spiritual Disciplines / 3. Buddhism

7900	Speak the truth, yield not to anger, give what you can to him who asks [Anon (Dham)]