
As quoted in Hindu Psychology : Its Meaning for the West (1946) by Swami Akhilananda, p. 204
Source: Trial by Fire (2014), Chapter 56 (p. 814)
As quoted in Hindu Psychology : Its Meaning for the West (1946) by Swami Akhilananda, p. 204
Letter to William Cabell (6 May 1783)
The Mike Wallace Interview (ABC) http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/multimedia/video/2008/wallace/sanger_margaret_t.html,
Posed question: "Do you believe in sin — When I say "believe" I don't mean believe in committing sin, do you believe there is such a thing as a sin
“To attain knowledge, add things every day.
To attain wisdom, remove things every day.”
Source: Tao Te Ching, Ch. 48
“There are cases in which the greatest daring is the greatest wisdom.”
Variant: There are times when the utmost daring is the height of wisdom.
Source: On War (1832), Book 2
“Now it is with such things that 'wisdom' is particularly concerned, but accidentally also with”
Nicomachus of Gerasa: Introduction to Arithmetic (1926)
Context: Bodily, material things are... continuously involved in continuous flow and change—in imitation of the nature and peculiar quality of that eternal matter and substance which has been from the beginning... The bodiless things, however, of which we conceive in connection with or together with matter, such as qualities, quantities, configurations, largeness, smallness, equality, relations, actualities, dispositions, places, times, all those things... whereby the qualities in each body are comprehended—all these are of themselves immovable and unchangeable, but accidentally they share in and partake of the affections of the body to which they belong. Now it is with such things that 'wisdom' is particularly concerned, but accidentally also with... bodies.<!--p.181