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Items of Philosophy"I wish for all things that I might enjoy life and was granted life that
I might enjoy all things." "Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. "Life itself is a race, marked by a start and a finish. It is what
we learn during the race, and how we apply it, that determines whether our
participation has had particular value. If we learn from each success, and
each failure, and improve ourselves through this process, then, at the end, we
will have fulfilled our potential and performed well." "How little, from the resources unrenewable by Man, "Courage embodies patience, philosophy, and the vision to lift your eyes
to the goal far ahead. It is the ability, in spite of discouragement,
disheartening disappointments, even apparent failure, never to lose sight of
that goal, or belief in yourself and your ultimate victory." "What makes a man except dedication to a freely chosen and assumed
attitude." "Each man is a tool in his own hands. Mankind is a tool in its own
hands. Our greatest satisfaction doesn't come from the rewards of our
work, but from the working itself; and our greatest responsibility is to
sharpen, and improve the tool that is ourselves so as to make it capable of
tackling bigger jobs." Shibumi: Shibumi has to do with refinement
underlying commonplace appearances. It is a statement so correct that it
does not have to be bold, so poignant it does not have to be pretty, so true it
does not have to be real. Shibumi is understanding, rather than knowledge.
Eloquent silence. In demeanor, it is modesty without prudency.
In art, it is elegant simplicity, articulate brevity. In philosophy, it is
spiritual tranquility that is not passive; it is being without the angst of
becoming. And in the personality of man, it is authority without
domination. To arrive at shibumi, one must pass through knowledge and
arrive at simplicity." From Dune by Frank Herbert: "A world is supported by four things: the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of the righteous, and the valor of brave. But all of these are as nothing without a ruler who knows the are of ruling." "A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join with it and flow with it." "If wishes were fishes we'd all cast nets." "Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality"
"The need is not really for more brains, the need is now
for a gentler, a more tolerant people than those who won us against the ice, the
tiger, and the bear. The hand that hefted the axe, out of some blind
allegiance to the past, holds the machine gun lovingly. It is a habit man
will have to break to survive, but the roots go very deep." "To
see a World in a grain of sand, He who binds to himself a joy "Afoot and light-hearted I take to the
open road, "Man--He needs places where he can be
reminded that civilization is only a thin veneer over the deep evolutionary flow
of things that built him. Let wilderness live, and it would always tell
him truth." "The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his
ability. He is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the
ability he has." "Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious
triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor
spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the grey
twilight that knows not victory nor defeat." "The winds which passed over my dwelling were such as
sweep over the ridges of mountains, bearing the broken strains, or celestial
parts only, of terrestrial music. The morning wind forever blows, the poem
of creation is uninterrupted, but few are the ears that hear it."
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