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Zazen is an activity that is an extension of the universe. Zazen is not the life of an individual, it's the universe that's breathing.
The anguish of death hangs over and leads the human spirit to wonder about the mysteries of existence, man's destiny, life, the world.
If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another.
Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life.
The trouble is not chiefly that our universities are unfit for students but that many present-day students are unfit for universities.
Free men are aware of the imperfection inherent in human affairs, and they are willing to fight and die for that which is not perfect.
In morals, truth is but little prized when it is a mere sentiment, and only attains its full value when realized in the world as fact.
There are lots of people who give their all and have that inner glow on. It's a shame that majority of them are under seven years old.
The past of the soul is so distant! The soul does not live on the edge of time. It finds its rest in the universe imagined by reverie.
To be is to be perceived (Esse est percipi)." Or, "If a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound?
The delusions of self-love cannot be prevented, but intellectual misconceptions as to the means of achieving success may be corrected.
The world is a perpetual caricature of itself; at every moment it is the mockery and the contradiction of what it is pretending to be.
It is right to prefer our own country to all others, because we are children and citizens before we can be travellers or philosophers.
When all beliefs are challenged together, the just and necessary ones have a chance to step forward and re-establish themselves alone.
As citizens, we must prevent wrongdoing because the world in which we all live, wrong-doer, wrong sufferer and spectator, is at stake.
Love is like swallowing hot chocolate before it has cooled off. It takes you by surprise at first, but keeps you warm for a long time.
Self-interest is an inexhaustible source of convenient illusions. The number of beings who wish to see truly is extraordinarily small.
Every man may claim the fullest liberty to exercise his faculties compatible with the possession of like liberties by every other man.
Without painting, sculpture, music, poetry, and the emotions produced by natural beauty of every kind, life would lose half its charm.
While you are alive, your worldly self is like a collector of benefits from Allah's bounties, which come to you from myriads of hands.
The yellow Indians do have a meagre talent. The Negroes are far below them, and at the lowest point are a part of the American people.
Religion is now viewed by many as a placebo or emotional crutch precisely because that is how we often pitch the gospel to unbelievers
Temperance and labor are the two best physicians of man; labor sharpens the appetite, and temperance prevents from indulging to excess
The lad who dreams of being a boxing champion or an admiral chooses reality. If the writer chooses the imaginary, he confuses the two.
Not only the entire ability to think rests on language... but language is also the crux of the misunderstanding of reason with itself.
I have no reason to suppose that he, who would take away my Liberty, would not when he had me in his Power, take away everything else.
The object of universities is not to make skillful lawyers, physicians or engineers. It is to make capable and cultivated human beings
A man who reads effeminate may well be consistently heterosexual, and another one might be gay. We can't read sexuality off of gender.
Life has to be protected. It is precarious. I would even go so far as to say that precarious life is, in a way, a Jewish value for me.
There are no bigger donkeys than these workers.... Look at our 'craftsmen'; Sad that world history should be be made with such people.
In life, the challenge is not so much to figure out how best to play the game; the challenge is to figure out what game you're playing
Understanding others is knowledge, Understanding oneself is enlightenment; Conquering others is power, Conquering oneself is strength.
By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond the winning.
It is as though he listened and such listening as his enfolds us in silence in which at last we begin to hear what we are meant to be.
Is not the space between Heaven and Earth like a bellows? It is empty, but lacks nothing. The more it moves, the more comes out of it.
When many people are killed, they should be mourned and lamented. Those who are victorious in war should follow the rites of funerals.
War can really cause no economic boom, at least not directly, since an increase in wealth never does result from destruction of goods.
The policy of letting the free market determine the height of wage rates is the only reasonable and successful full-employment policy.
The mixing of politics and business not only is detrimental to politics, as is frequently observed, but even much more so to business.
Inflation has always been an important resource of policies of war and revolution and why we also find it in the service of socialism.
I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.
Where two principles really do meet which cannot be reconciled with one another, then each man declares the other a fool and a heretic
We could present spatially an atomic fact which contradicted the laws of physics, but not one which contradicted the laws of geometry.
If the whole earth is infinitely small in comparison with the sphere of the stars, what is man compared with all these created beings!
There is no one who can give you wiser advice than you can give yourself: you will never make a slip, if you listen to your own heart.
It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment.
In so far as the mind is stronger than the body, so are the ills contracted by the mind more severe than those contracted by the body.
Here is a man whose life and actions the world has already condemned - yet whose enormous fortune...has already brought him acquittal!
The news automatically becomes the real world for the TV user and is not a substitute for reality, but is itself an immediate reality.
Pornography and violence are by-products of societies in which private identity has been ... destroyed by sudden environmental change.