From Cicero: “The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.”
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Quote of the day 06/08/25
From R.H. Blyth: “In both good and evil there is Goodness, if only men can forget their praising and blaming and see it as it flows, in its activity.”
Quote of the day 06/07/25
From R.H. Blyth: “The scales are weighted, though ever so lightly, on the side of goodness and truth. Were this not so, how could we say, ‘Follow nature,’ ‘Know thyself’? Zen would become simply a participation in the Universal Suicide.”
Quote of the day 04/21/25
From William Wordsworth: One impulse from a vernal woodMay teach you more of man,Of moral evil and of good,Than all the sages can.
Quote of the day 04/12/15
From R.H. Blyth: “Zen says, as in the Shinjinmei, all forms of dualism, right and wrong, good and bad, gain and loss – get rid of them all, forget them!”
Quote of the day 03/31/25
From William Wordsworth: “The best portion of a good man’s life: his little, nameless unremembered acts of kindness and love.”
Quote of the day 02/05/25
From William Shakespeare: “There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”
Quote of the day 02/04/25
From William Shakespeare: “There is some soul of goodness in things evil, would men observingly distill it out.”
Quote of the day 02/03/25
From Epictetus: “Two rules we should always have ready,-that there is nothing good or evil save in the will; and that we are not to lead events, but to follow them.”
Quote of the day 08/09/24
From John Steinbeck: “I believe that there is one story in the world, and only one. . . . Humans are caught—in their lives, in their thoughts, in their hungers and ambitions, in their avarice and cruelty, and in their kindness and generosity too—in a net of good and evil. . . . There isContinue reading “Quote of the day 08/09/24”
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