Philosophy

"Whoever holds a shinai is a friend of mine." --Rod Nobuto Omoto

"Don't anticipate. Be cool." --Rod Nobuto Omoto

"In Kendo, you have to be wide awake." --Rod Nobuto Omoto

"The unexamined life is not worth living." --Socrates

"Never confuse motion with action." --Benjamin Franklin

"Three things in human life are important. The First is to be kind. The Second is to be kind. And the Third is to be kind." --Henry James.

"We should be indifferent to good and evil, but, when we are indifferent, that is to say when we project the light of our attention equally on both, the good gains the day." --Simone Weil on "Attention and Will," Gravity and Grace

"Shall I show you the muscular training of a philosopher? A will undisappointed, evils avoided, powers daily exercised, careful resolutions, unerring decisions." --Epictetus

"The unexamined life is not worth living." --Socrates

"All is flux, nothing stays still... You could not step twice into the same river, for other waters are ever flowing on to you." --Heraclitus

"Nature has had regard in everything no less to the end than to the beginning and the continuance, just like the man who throws up a ball. What good is it then for the ball to be thrown up, or harm for it to come down, or even to have fallen?" --Marcus Aurelius

"Any one thing in the creation is sufficient to demonstrate a Providence to a humble and grateful mind." --Epictetus

"Beer is living proof that God loves us and wants to see us happy." --Benjamin Franklin

"The most formidable weapon against errors of every kind is Reason. I have never used any other, and I trust I never shall." --Thomas Paine

"I am a citizen of the world; the world is my village." --Thomas Paine

"Question with boldness even the existance of a god; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear." -- Thomas Jefferson

"There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity." --Douglas MacArthur

"The crucial thing in my lectures on the Presocratics is that I begin neither with Thales nor with Homer, nor do I begin with the Greek language in the second century before Christ; I begin instead with Plato and Aristotle. This, in my judgment, is the sole philosophical access to an interpretation of the Presocratics. Everything else is historicism without philosophy." --Hans-Georg Gadamer

"Only as a warrior can one withstand the path of knowledge. A warrior cannot complain or regret anything. Life is an endless challenge, and challenges cannot possibly be good or bad. Challenges are simply challenges. The basic difference between an ordinary person and a warrior is that a warrior takes everything as a challenge, while an ordinary person takes everything either as a blessing or as a curse." --Carlos Castaneda

"All of us, whether or not we are warriors, have a cubic centimeter of chance that pops out from time to time. The difference between an average person and a warrior is awareness of this, and one of the tasks is to be alert, deliberately waiting, so that when the cubic centimeter pops out he or she has the necessary speed and prowess to pick it up." --Carlos Castaneda

"Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it." --George Santayana

"When Honor's sun declines and Wealth takes wings, Then Learning shines, the best of precious things." --Edward Crocker

"One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." --A. A. Milne

"If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?" -- Albert Einstein

"The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them." -- Albert Einstein

"The distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion." -- Albert Einstein

"Everyone who is seriously involved in the pursuit of science becomes convinced that a spirit is manifest in the laws of the Universe - a spirit vastly superior to that of man, and one in the face of which we with our modest powers must feel humble." -- Albert Einstein

"If you judge people, you have no time to love them." --Mother Teresa

"Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh, be swift to love, make haste to be kind." -- Henri Frederic Amiel

"Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be." -- Abraham Lincoln

"Amid the ruins of a falling age, our spirit remains erect." --Cyprian

"Nothing to fear in God. Nothing to feel in Death. Good can be attained. Evil can be endured." --Diogenes of Oenoanda

"I think the Eureka moment is a bit of a myth. I think when you have a lot of jumbled up ideas they come together slowly over a period of several years." -- Sir Tim Berners-Lee

GADAMER

Hans-Georg Gadamer

Ein Meister des Verstehens

born February 11, 1900 Marburg an der Lahn

died evening of March 13, 2002 in a hospital in Heidelberg where he lay down in bed after a heart attack, and fell asleep; after a few moments it was marked that he was no longer breathing; until then his consciousness was clear.

Philosophy

GADAMER

Martin Heidegger

Hypatia

EINSTEIN

FRANKLIN

SANTAYANA

Paul Tillich

Seneca