Philosophy quotes — page 9

Do not block the way of inquiry.

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

For a conscious being, to exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.

All real living is meeting.

Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.

I am myself and my circumstance; and if I do not save it, I do not save myself.

I do not wish them to have power over men; but over themselves.

Love is the extremely difficult realisation that something other than oneself is real.

Man is always more than he knows of himself.

Teach your tongue to say, “I do not know.”

Mind precedes all mental states; mind is their chief; they are mind-made.

You have a right to action alone, never to its fruits.

That thou art.

To study the Buddha Way is to study the self. To study the self is to forget the self.

Bodhi originally has no tree; the bright mirror is not a stand. Fundamentally there is not a single thing — where could dust alight?

Give rise to a mind that abides nowhere.

When the age changes, affairs change; when affairs change, preparations must change.

When the granaries are full, people know ritual and restraint; when food and clothing are sufficient, they know honor and shame.

All under heaven is nothing but concrete things (qi). The Way is the Way of things; one cannot reverse this and call things merely vessels of an abstract Way.

Toward the past history of one’s own country, one should hold a warmth of feeling and a sense of respect.

Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark.

Arise, awake, and stop not till the goal is reached.

Knowledge without action is vanity, and action without knowledge is madness.

Accept the truth from whatever source it comes.