“The world is bad but not without hope. It is only hopeless when you look at it from an ideal viewpoint.”
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Friedrich Dürrenmatt 19
Swiss author and dramatist 1921–1990Related quotes
“Summits like those in Geneva promote hope. But hope without action is hopeless.”
Nobel Peace Prize acceptance (1985)
Context: Summits like those in Geneva promote hope. But hope without action is hopeless. Our enthusiasm for the positive spirit in these deliberations must not blind us to the absence of genuine progress toward disarmament. Twenty-four nuclear bombs are being added weekly to world arsenals.
The Herder's Reverie, st. 3.
Out Where the West Begins and Other Western Verses http://www.cowboypoetry.com/ac.htm#outbk (1917)
The Aquarian Conspiracy (1980), Chapter Two, Premonitions of Transformation and Conspiracy
in 'The eye of the beholder', Carlo McCormick
Karel Appel – the complete sculptures,' (1990) not-paged
Philo to Cleanthes, Part IV
Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion (1779)
Go Rin No Sho (1645), The Book No-Thing-ness
Context: Until you realise the true Way, whether in Buddhism or in common sense, you may think that things are correct and in order. However, if we look at things objectively, from the viewpoint of laws of the world, we see various doctrines departing from the true Way. Know well this spirit, and with forthrightness as the foundation and the true spirit as the Way. Enact strategy broadly, correctly and openly.
Then you will come to think of things in a wide sense and, taking the void as the Way, you will see the Way as void.
In the void is virtue, and no evil. Wisdom has existence, principle has existence, the Way has existence, spirit is nothingness.
