I would rather be wise and than right and ignorant.
人間の最大の武器は、習慣と信頼だ
Even a wise man knows doubt from time to time, it is the fool who allows it to rule his judgement.
Common sense tells us that the government's attempts to solve large problems more often create new ones. Common sense also tells us that a top-down, one-size-fits-all plan will not improve the workings of a nationwide health-care system that accounts for one-sixth of our economy.
You cannot insult a wise man with wisdom.
Each coil has the earthquake which created it, as every death has the life that gave birth to it.
A doctor may know more than a peasant, but a peasant and a doctor know more together.
Is the sunrise superior just because it goes before the sunset with a day and sunset goes before the sunrise with a night? Could there be day without night and sunrise without sunset, life without death?
Even the snow melts, let alone the frugal regards of a soul confident in its own eternity.
I believed in the faith of faith without acknowledging his quality of being an absolute truth.
The Great Way is not difficult for those who have no preferences. When love and hate are both absent everything becomes clear and undisguised. Make the smallest distinction, however, and heaven and earth are set infinitely apart. If you wish to see the truth then hold no opinion for or against. The struggle of what one likes and what one dislikes is the disease of the mind.
One of the disadwantages of school and learning, he thought dreamily, was that the mind seemed to have the tendency too see and represent all things as though they were flat and had only two dimensions. This, somehow, seemed to render all matters of intellect shallow and worthless...
To live in the Great Way is neither easy nor difficult, but those with limited views are fearful and irresolute: the faster they hurry, the slower they go, and clinging cannot be limited: even to be attached to the idea of enlightenment is to go astray. Just let things be in their own way and there will be neither coming nor going. Obey the nature of things (your own nature), and you will walk freely and undisturbed.
Cieszy mię ten rym: „Polak mądr po szkodzie”; Lecz jeśli prawda i z tego nas zbodzie, Nową przypowieść Polak sobie kupi, Że i przed szkodą, i po szkodzie głupi.
In not only the physical science, but in the real mental silence, the wisdom dawns. (75)
Courteous people learn courtesy from the discourteous
Normalization takes place not because there is Western-ideology that normalizes third-world texts in any special way (other than the usual play with exoticism) but because this academic seeks to domesticate everything, even Marx.
Fatherhood to us was an act of passion, soon forgot; but not to Orem ap Avonap. Never guessing that the blond and happy farmer was no blood of his, Orem had taken a part of that simple man into himself and saved it for this time. At any time in the Palace he might run by, Youth on this shoulders or, as time went by, toddling along behind.
Go to any small village anywhere in the world, and see what they remember. Everything. It's all there -- passed on like a precious piece of information, some secret imparted from one who knew to one who yearns to know. Taken good care of.
The meaning of the words is necessary and not their extent.
