Thomas Brooks (1608–1680) English Puritan
Quotes from secondary sources, Smooth Stones Taken From Ancient Brooks, 1860
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Thomas Brooks (1608–1680) English Puritan
Quotes from secondary sources, Smooth Stones Taken From Ancient Brooks, 1860
“The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity.”
Zig Ziglar (1926–2012) American motivational speaker
As quoted in Refining Your Style : Learning from Respected Communicators (2004) by Dave Stone, p. 143
Gardiner Spring (1785–1873) American clergyman
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 241.
Karlheinz Deschner (1924–2014) German writer and activist
Am wenigsten widerstehen kann ich dem Zweifel. Ich bezweifle alles, selbst meinen Zweifel. Ich glaube wenig und auch das nicht ganz. Skepsis ist für mich keine der «schönen Künste », sondern Teil meiner Existenz. <br class="br"> deschner.info http://www.deschner.info/de/person/zitate.htm
William Morley Punshon (1824–1881) English Nonconformist minister
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 371.
Yasunari Kawabata (1899–1972) Japanese author, Nobel Prize winner
Japan, the Beautiful and Myself (1969)
Context: "If you meet a Buddha, kill him. If you meet a patriarch of the law, kill him."
This is a well-known Zen motto. If Buddhism is divided generally into the sects that believe in salvation by faith and those that believe in salvation by one's own efforts, then of course there must be such violent utterances in Zen, which insists upon salvation by one's own efforts. On the other side, the side of salvation by faith, Shinran, the founder of the Shin sect, once said: "The good shall be reborn in paradise, and how much more shall it be so with the bad." This view of things has something in common with Ikkyu's world of the Buddha and world of the devil, and yet at heart the two have their different inclinations. Shinran also said: "I shall not take a single disciple."
"If you meet a Buddha, kill him. If you meet a patriarch of the law, kill him." "I shall not take a single disciple." In these two statements, perhaps, is the rigorous fate of art.
Charles Rosen (1927–2012) American pianist and writer on music
Source: The Frontiers of Meaning: Three Informal Lectures on Music (1994), Ch. 2 : How to Become Immortal
“Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.”
Seneca the Younger (-4–65 BC) Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and dramatist
Plutarch (46–127) ancient Greek historian and philosopher
Life of Alexander
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)