Quotes
Quotes about Zen
When Zeno was asked what a friend was, he replied, "Another I."
But Chrysippus, Posidonius, Zeno, and Boëthus say, that all things are produced by fate. And fate is a connected cause of existing things, or the reason according to which the world is regulated.
We saw a knot of others, about a baker's dozen.
Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a worm, and yet he will be making gods by dozens.
Architecture is frozen music.
I'm summoned by the fields and hills, The shady maples in the garden, The bank of the deserted burn, The liberties the country offers. Give me your hand. I will return At the beginning of October: We'll drink together once again, And o'er our cups of friendly candor Discuss a dozen gentlemen-- We'll talk of fools and wicked gentry, And those with flunkey's souls from birth, And sometimes of the Tsar of Heaven, And sometimes of the one on earth.
Comparatively, things go well for you, America. I know - smog makes you cough, too many citizens are badly off (meaning, by Asian standards, millionaires)
A dozen direct censures are easier to bear than one morganatic compliment.
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
To remain caught up in ideas and words about Zen is, as the old masters say, to "stink of Zen." -Alan Watts
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
To remain caught up in ideas and words about Zen is, as the old masters say, to "stink of Zen." -Alan Watts
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
O senseless man, who cannot possibly make a worm and yet will make Gods by the dozen!
Man is certainly stark mad: he cannot make a flea, yet he makes gods by the dozens.
A book must be an axe for the frozen sea inside of us.
Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity, and in cold weather becomes frozen, even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.
It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.
An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.
I call architecture frozen music.
If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.
The most important political office is that of private citizen.
The zen of flyfishing is that zen masters don't fish.. the Buddha suffocates no creature.
