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!”
Tag Archives: morality
Quote of the day 04/11/25
From R.H. Blyth: “What Zen wishes us to do is let go of the ordinary goodness of philanthropy and duty, and the badness of tyranny and cruelty, and live always in the Goodness, dissolved in it, sublimed in it.”
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 12/25/24
From Charles Dickens: “I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me. I will not shut out the lessons that they teach.”
Quote of the day 10/27/24
From Plutarch: “To find fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.”
Quote of the day 10/23/24
From Desiderius Erasmus: “Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.”
Quote of the day 10/17/24
From Immanuel Kant: “A categorical imperative would be one which represented an action as objectively necessary in itself, without reference to any other purpose.”
Quote of the day 10/13/24
From Immanuel Kant: “Act in such a way that you treat humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of any other, never merely as a means to an end, but always at the same time as an end.”
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