The Noble Truth of Suffering is this: Birth is suffering, aging is suffering; sickness is suffering; death is suffering; sorror and lamentation, pain, grief and despair are suffering; association with the unpleasant is suffering; dissociation from the pleasant is suffering; not to get what one wants is suffering-in brief, the five aggregates of attachment are suffering.

Pali Tipitaka

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Topic

Attachment (Buddhism) Suffering The human condition

Source

Pali Tipitaka

Medium

Scripture

Genre

Religious literature

Language

Sanskrit

Time

100 BC 100s BC 2nd century BC

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Original Citation

Pali Tipitaka. c. 100 BC, Samyutta Nikaya, pt. 56, p. 11.

Current Citation

Meghaprasara, Matthew. New Guide to the Tipitaka. Sangha of Books, 2013, Samyutta Nikaya, pt. 56.

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John Stuart Mill

The Utility of Religion

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Topic
The mysterious Mysteriousness of the universe The human condition

Author

John Stuart Mill
Source
The Utility of Religion
Medium
Essay
Genre
Philosophical literature
Statement Type
Metaphor, analogy and simile
Language
English
Time
1873 1870s 19th century
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Original Citation

Mill, John Stuart. "The Utility of Religion." Nature, the Utility of Religion, and Theism. London: Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1874.

Current Citation

Mill, John Stuart. "The Contest in America." Essays on Ethics, Religion and Society. Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, edited by John M. Robson. Vol. 10, Routledge, 2014.