Gautama Buddha Quotes

When phenomena are individually analyzed as selfless, and what has been analyzed is meditated upon, that is the cause for attaining the fruit, nirvana. One does not go to peace through any other cause.

Gautama Buddha

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• The rigid cause themselves to be broken; the pliable cause themselves to be bound.

  

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• Heaven is home. Utopia is here. Nirvana is now.

  

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• In the rest of Nirvana all sorrows surcease: Only Buddha can guide to that city of Peace Whose inhabitants have the eternal release.

  

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• Presumably it's related to the fact this was so close. We may be seeing phenomena we can't see for the (bursts) that are 100 times more distant. We'll be trying to figure out that puzzle for the next days and weeks.

  

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• Our hope is that those who support the animal liberation cause will see that criminal actions bring serious consequences, and will refrain from further assaults.

  

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• Let us first understand the facts and then we may seek the cause.

  

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• No man can be judge to his own cause.

  

  Thomas Hobbes
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• For who is there but you? - who not only claim to be a good man and a gentleman, for many are this, and yet have not the power of making others good. Whereas you are not only good yourself, but also the cause of goodness in others.

  

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• However we select from nature a complex of phenomena using the criterion of simplicity, in no case will its theoretical treatment turn out to be forever appropriate (sufficient).... I do not doubt that the day will come when general relativity, too, will have to yield to another one, for reasons which at present we do not yet surmise. I believe that this process of deepening theory has no limits.

  

  Albert Einstein
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• The number of natural hypothesis that can explain any given phenomena is infinite.

  

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• It is so little true that martyrs offer any support to the truth of a cause that I am inclined to deny that any martyr has ever had anything to do with the truth at all.

  

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• Vanity is illustrated in the cause and effect of love, as in the case of Cleopatra.

  

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• The view is often defended that sciences should be built up on clear and sharply defined basal concepts. In actual fact no science, not even the most exact, begins with such definitions. The true beginning of scientific activity consists rather in describing phenomena and then in proceeding to group, classify and correlate them.

  

  Sigmund Freud
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• What psycho-analysis reveals in the transference phenomena of neurotics can also be observed in the lives of some normal people. The impression they give is of being pursued by a malignant fate or possessed by some 'daemonic' power; but psycho-analysis has always taken the view that their fate is for the most part arranged by themselves and determined by early infantile influences.

  

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• Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.

  

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• People misinterpret my emotions towards Nirvana because I've said things about how something happened with grunge that took a little bit of fun out of things. It's no offense to Nirvana; they were one of the greats, obviously. But something died there, too, and we haven't quite gotten the groove back.

  

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• To become vegetarian is to step into the stream which leads to nirvana.

  

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• Thus all things are subject to death, sorrow and suffering. I became aware that I too was of the same nature, the nature of beginning and end. What if I searched for that which underlies all creation, that which is nirvana, the perfect freedom from unconditioned existence?

  

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• I am so far from being a pessimist...on the contrary, in spite of my scars, I am tickled to death at life.

  

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• Mastering music is more than learning technical skills. Practicing is about quality, not quantity. Some days I practice for hours; other days it will be just a few minutes.

  

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• Waste is worse than loss. The time is coming when every person who lays claim to ability will keep the question of waste before him constantly. The scope of thrift is limitless.

  

  Thomas A. Edison
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• When phenomena are individually analyzed as selfless, and what has been analyzed is meditated upon, that is the cause for attaining the fruit, nirvana. One does not go to peace through any other cause.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Cause
  • Phenomena
  • Nirvana