Quotes from Nagarjuna

The logs of wood which move down the river together Are driven apart by every wave. Such inevitable parting Should not be the cause of misery.

Although you may spend your life killing, You will not exhaust all your foes. But if you quell your own anger, your real enemy will be slain.

There is pleasure when a sore is scratched, But to be without sores is more pleasurable still. Just so, there are pleasures in worldly desires, But to be without desires is more pleasurable still.

So, to praise others for their virtues can but encourage one's own efforts.

If you desire ease, forsake learning.

Just as it is known That an image of one's face is seen Depending on a mirror But does not really exist as a face, So the conception of "I" exists Dependent on mind and body, But like the image of a face The "I" does not at all exist as its own reality.

All philosophies are mental fabrications. There has never been a single doctrine by which one could enter the true essence of things.

Since all is empty, all is possible.

Although you may spend your life killing, you will not exhaust all your foes. But if you quell your own anger, your real enemy will be slain.

the whole world is cause and effect; excluding this, there is no sentient being. from factors which are empty, empty factors originate. those who impute origination to even very subtle entities are unwise and have not seen the meaning of conditioned origination. there is nothing to be denied and nothing to be affirmed. see the real correctly, for he who sees the real correctly is released

if an astronomer calculates from the sky he will ascertain the paths of the moon and the stars; but in his house the womenfolk are at variance, and he does not perceive their various misconduct.