Quotes of: Lao-tzu Keyword

I like writing, but I write for self-improvement more than I do for money.

Thomas Steinbeck

It is not easy to imagine how little interested a scientist usually is in the work of any other, with the possible exception of the teacher who backs him or the student who honors him.

Jean Rostand

In an ideal world, the amount of money we spend on medical research to prevent or cure a disease would be proportional to its seriousness and the number of people who suffer from it.

Peter Singer

Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.

William Shakespeare

Patience can't be acquired overnight. It is just like building up a muscle. Every day you need to work on it.

Eknath Easwaran

Without troublesome work, no one can have any concrete, full idea of what pure mathematical research is like or of the profusion of insights that can be obtained from it.

Edmund Husserl

Sun Tzu does not need my praise. His work has lived for over two thousand years, and will surely live for another two thousand without any help from me.

Martin Van Creveld

My work is based on the assumption that clarity and consistency in our moral thinking is likely, in the long run, to lead us to hold better views on ethical issues.

Peter Singer

We can, for example, be fairly confident that either there will be a world without war or there won't be a world - at least, a world inhabited by creatures other than bacteria and beetles, with some scattering of others.

Noam Chomsky

In the 1960s, there was a point, 1968, '69, when there was a very strong antiwar movement against the war in Vietnam. But it's worth remembering that the war in Vietnam started - an outright war started in 1962.

Noam Chomsky

Americans assume that we never go to war to sustain our wealth, because war must be understood as a moral enterprise commensurate with our being a democracy.

Stanley Hauerwas

'The Chronicles of Narnia' are war-determined stories. I do not think Lewis could have written well or truthfully if he had tried to avoid the reality of war.

Stanley Hauerwas

Things joined by profit, when pressed by misfortune and danger, will cast each other aside.

The Complete Works of Chuang Tzu

The man who has forgotten self may be said to have entered Heaven.

The Complete Works of Chuang Tzu

The petty thief is imprisoned but the big thief becomes a feudal lord.

The Complete Works of Chuang Tzu

When men do not forget what can be forgotten but forget what cannot be forgotten - that may be called true forgetting.

The Complete Works of Chuang Tzu

To forget the whole world is easy; to make the whole world forget you is hard.

The Complete Works of Chuang Tzu

Speak the truth, do not yield to anger; give, if thou art asked for little; by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.

Confucius

All over the world, young males and females, schooled in the art of patriarchal thinking, are building an identity on a foundation that sees the will to do violence as the essential way to assert being.

bell hooks

The first, that their pretensions to this possession of an art properly so called in their art of speaking are entirely unfounded; and the second, that they are involved in a profound mistake in their confusion of the good with the pleasant.

Friedrich Schleiermacher

It is one of the primary motives of modern art that it wants to abolish the distance which the viewer, the consumer, the audience maintain vis-a-vis a work of art.

Hans-Georg Gadamer