Quotes About Aggregates

#1. When the Aggregates arise, decay and die, O bhikkhu, every moment you are born, decay, and die.

Gautama Buddha

#2. what Russell called a 'logical construction out of aggregates of facts. (This does not mean that all statements about the average are sensible or useful: as has been said, the average person has one testicle and one breast.)

Simon Blackburn

#3. Wealth aggregates and becomes political power. Simple as that. 'Corporation' is just the most recent name for it.

Daniel Suarez

#4. Real change occurs from the bottom up; it occurs person to person, and it almost always occurs in small groups and locales and then bubbles up and aggregates to larger vectors of change.

Paul Hawken

#5. [In science any model depends on a pre-chosen taxonomy] a set of classifications into which we divide the enormous complexity of the real world ... Land, labor, and capital are extremely heterogeneous aggregates, not much better than earth, air, fire, and water.

Kenneth E. Boulding

#6. When you go into samadhi, either salvikalpa or nirvikalpa, what happens is you erase, you loosen, the aggregates. You simplify them.

Frederick Lenz

#7. The conversations had a nightmare flatness, talking dice spilled in the tube metal chairs, human aggregates disintegrating in cosmic insanity, random events in a dying universe.

William S. Burroughs

#8. Nirvana is the other side, the source of all things, where all the aggregates come from, where the templates of infinity are.

Frederick Lenz

#9. Just as a chariot is verbalized, in dependence on collections of parts, so conventionally a sentient being, is set up depending on the mental and physical aggregates

Gautama Buddha

#10. The aggregates that we pick up in the human plane will be washed away, and we will become pure spirit, pure light, pure love, and pure ecstasy.

Frederick Lenz

#11. Whoever realizes that the six senses aren't real, that the five aggregates are fictions, that no such things can be located anywhere in the body, understands the language of Buddhas.

Bodhidharma

#12. The slicing technique from Flatland still remains one of the most powerful tools for dealing with aggregates in higher dimensions.

Thomas Banchoff

#13. Now this, monks, is the noble truth of suffering: birth is suffering, aging is suffering, illness is suffering, death is suffering; union with what is displeasing is suffering; seperation from what is pleasing is suffering ... in brief, the five aggregates subject to clinging are suffering.

Gautama Buddha

#14. YES we have a soul but it's made of lots of tiny robots

Daniel Dennett

#15. Be your own teacher. Let life write your textbook

Richie Sambora

#16. Being a father to my family and a husband is to me much more important than what I did in the business.

Tom Bosley

#17. shall." I think I finally guessed then what

Robin Hobb

#18. I'm thinking about doing a First World War film.

Peter Jackson

#19. Lying is an art. A good lie shouldn't be embellished so much.

David Eddings

#20. Nothing, believe me, nothing is more satisfying to me personally than getting a great idea and then beatin' it to death.

David Letterman

#21. in BRCA-1 has a 50 to 80 percent chance of developing breast cancer in her lifetime (the gene also increases the risk for ovarian cancer), about three to five times the normal risk.

Siddhartha Mukherjee