Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, even if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense. - Buddha
2006-12-15 13:26:11 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Plato would have said, "to thine own self be true.....".....Mudcat most likely would have walked away and found his own way home.....
2006-12-15 15:05:50 · answer #1 · answered by Mudcat 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
To me, it means that one shouldn't just believe what they read or hear... no matter who it comes from. You should use your common sense to determine if something is, or even could be, correct.
Good quote.
2006-12-15 22:05:42 · answer #2 · answered by Kithy 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It sugguests that you shouldn't take people's word for it. Technically, that would mean a lot of people wouldn't believe in evolution because, while it's science, it's also very complex science. Unfortunately, those things that we can apply to say "Don't buy into religious cults" could technically apply to the application of science (for those who aren't intelligent enough to understand it).
2006-12-15 21:29:53 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think it means do not believe something because someone else tells you to. Believe because you want to.
2006-12-15 21:29:34 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
If you meet the Buddha on your path, kill him!
(the buddha is within you)
2006-12-15 21:32:29 · answer #5 · answered by Barabas 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It means when religion tells you, you just need to have faith you are probably being mislead.
Love and blessings Don
2006-12-15 22:41:31 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
seems to mean ignorance is bliss, satisfy yourelf with reality the way you want it to be no matter what society/culture laws dictate.....
2006-12-15 21:31:57 · answer #7 · answered by fenian1916 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
carl sagan said it better:
“it is far better to grasp the universe as it really is, than to persist in delusion”
2006-12-15 21:28:38 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
One of the things I live by. :)
2006-12-15 21:29:20 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
So what if someone says "I love you"?
2006-12-15 21:39:13 · answer #10 · answered by <><><> 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋