Tao Te Ching
The Power of Goodness, the Wisdom Beyond Words
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| Sage | Source | Quote |
|---|---|---|
| Ludwig Wittgenstein | Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself. | |
| Friedrich Nietzsche | Thus Spoke Zarathustra | Not he is great who can alter matter, but he who can alter my state of mind. |
| Haruki Murakami | No, I haven’t been in jail, or had to hide out for a long time. Someone once said unless you have those kinds of opportunities, you can’t read the whole of Proust. | |
| Virgil | Aeneid | No day shall erase you from the memory of time |
| Pema Chödrön | My feeling is that all Trungpa Rinpoche did was get people to take responsibility for themselves, get them to grow up. He was a master of not confirming: talking to him was like talking to a huge space in which everything bounced back — you had to be accountable for yourself. | |
| Confucius | Book of Rites | Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without. |
| Henry David Thoreau | On the Duty of Civil Disobedience | most legislators, politicians, lawyers, ministers, and office-holders… rarely make any moral distinctions, they are as likely to serve the devil, without intending it, as God |
| Zisi | Doctrine of the Mean, Maintaining Perfect Balance, Zhongyong 中庸 | Maintain perfect balance in each and every set of circumstances and thus keep to steadfast principle at all times. |
| Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky | Brothers Karamatzov | Life is paradise, and we are all in paradise, but we refuse to see it. |
| Aldous Huxley | Brave New World | It isn’t only art that is incompatible with happiness, it’s also science. Science is dangerous, we have to keep it most carefully chained and muzzled. |
| Yoshida Kenkō | Harvest of Leisure | It is typical of the unintelligent man to insist on assembling complete sets of everything. Imperfect sets are better. |
| Neil Gaiman | American Gods | In the end, all gods fall victim to their thirst for worship. |
| Dazu Huike | Ignorance and wisdom are identical, not different. | |
| Muhammad محمد; | Koran | If you disclose your charitable expenditures, they are good; but if you conceal them and give them to the poor, it is better for you. |
| Peter Kingsley | A Story Waiting to Pierce You | If those who make history were like those who write it, nothing would ever happen. |
| Jane Goodall | I understood why… their children, inevitably, took those things for granted… Hence the materialistic and often greedy and selfish lifestyle of so many young people in the Western world, especially in the United States. | |
| Jean-Jacques Rousseau | I have never thought, for my part, that man's freedom consists in his being able to do whatever he wills, but that he should not, by any human power, be forced to do what is against his will. | |
| David Hume | He is like a man who was stripped not only of his clothes, but of his skin, and turned out in this situation to combat with the rude and boisterous elements. | |
| J. Rufus Fears | Freedom is not a universal value. Power is the universal value. | |
| Herman Melville | Moby Dick or The Whale | For all men tragically great are made so through a certain morbidness.... all mortal greatness is but disease. |