“These things cannot be explained in detail. From one thing, know ten thousand things.”
Go Rin No Sho (1645), The Ground Book
Context: These things cannot be explained in detail. From one thing, know ten thousand things. When you attain the Way of strategy there will not be one thing you cannot see. You must study hard.
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Japanese martial artist, writer, artist 1584–1645Related quotes
A Factless Autobiography, number 424, trans. Richard Zenith, Penguin Classics edition
The Book of Disquiet
Context: It was very dispiriting because a lot of things needed to be done. One of the things that happened was, if you had a good rank-and-file activist in a trade union situation, they would make them an offer to become part of the staff—at which point the person was totally lost to the campaign where they were a catalyst and became part of an apparatus that was basically going nowhere. The odd thing is, despite The Permanent Revolution being on the bookshelves, they would explain everything by going back and finding a quote from Trotsky or from Lenin in order to explain things, as opposed to explaining how things were in the real world.... They were basically just living in their own universe as opposed to making real life connections.
Source: Meditations (c. AD 121–180), Book VII, 49
Go Rin No Sho (1645), The Fire Book
As quoted in The Christian Leader, Vol. 37, Issue 7 (17 February 1934)
“One of the best things you can relate to is a detailed story.”