Dignaga Quotes

Dignaga was an Indian Buddhist logician and epistemologist and the founder of the Buddhist tradition of logic and philosophy of knowledge. His Pramana-samuccaya, the Compendium of Valid Cognition, established the framework in which Buddhist epistemology would be debated for the next thousand years, including the doctrine that there are exactly two valid means of knowledge, perception and inference, with distinct objects. The quotes below are attributed to Dignaga, organized by topic.