Nagarjuna

Nāgārjuna called the "second Buddha", was an Indian Buddhist priest and thinker. He systematized Mahayana Buddhist philosophy around the central concept of the emptiness (shunyata) of all existents (dharmas).

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• No suffering is self-caused.
  Nothing causes itself.
  If another is not self-made,
  How could suffering be caused by another?
  
  If suffering were caused by each,
  Suffering could be caused by both.
  Not caused by self or by other,
  How could suffering be uncaused?
  • Mūlamadhyamakakārikā 14.8–9
  • trans. Jay Garfield, The Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way (1995), ISBN 0195093364

• The science, which teaches arts and handicrafts
  Is merely science for the gaining of a living;
  But the science which teaches deliverance from worldly existence,
  Is not that the true science?"
  • Prajñadanda (The Staff of Wisdom) attributed to Nagarjuna