Lao Tzu Quotes

Greed for enlightenment and immortality is no different than greed for material wealth. It is self-centered and dualistic, and thus an obstacle to true attainment. Therefore these states are never achieved by those who covet them; rather, they are the reward of the virtuous.

Lao Tzu

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• The Enlightenment view of mankind is a complete myth. It leads us into thinking we're sane and rational creatures most of the time, and we're not.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • View

• In Gnosticism, the physical world did not ultimately matter - which meant physical suffering did not matter either. Seeking 'enlightenment' meant cultivating an attitude of detachment, even indifference.

  

  Nancy Pearcey
  • World
  • Suffering
  • Attitude

• The writers of the French enlightenment had deliberately used blasphemy as a weapon, refusing to accept the power of the Church to set limiting points on thought.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Power
  • Church
  • Thought

• We must recognize our own behavioral errors. To be blunt, you are not likely to become a cognitive Zen master anytime soon. But a little enlightenment could keep you from making some common investing errors.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • You
  • Master
  • Enlightenment

• Wealth won't give you satisfaction; creating a good product that's well received by users is what matters most.

  

  Ma Huateng
  • Good
  • Wealth
  • Satisfaction

• I take pride in the creation of my wealth, in its existence and in the uses to which it has been and is being put.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • Pride
  • Wealth
  • Creation

• I believe wealth should be in the hands of those who know how to create more wealth.

  

  Zong Qinghou
  • Believe
  • Hands
  • Wealth

• Online, you can become much more than a reactive donor - you can become a proactive, strategic, collaborative philanthropist, improving your giving every day by tapping into the wealth of philanthropic resources available at the tap of a keyboard or the click of a mouse.

  

  Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
  • Giving
  • Day
  • Wealth

• Sudden success in golf is like the sudden acquisition of wealth. It is apt to unsettle and deteriorate the character.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Character
  • Success
  • Golf

• I don't spend any time at all thinking about my personal wealth. I suppose if I had nothing, I might think, 'I have nothing.'

  

  B. Wayne Hughes
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Wealth

• I don't like Communism because it hands out wealth through rationing books.

  

  Omar Torrijos Herrera
  • Hands
  • Wealth
  • Communism

• Sometimes I attract roles that are necessary either for personal growth or enlightenment.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Sometimes
  • Growth
  • Personal

• God is not anything human. God is a force, God is chaos, God is unknown. God is terror and enlightenment at the same time.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Time
  • God
  • Chaos

• Religions have always stressed that compassion is not only central to religious life, it is the key to enlightenment and it the true test of spirituality. But there have always have been those who'd rather put easier goals, like doctrine conformity, in place.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • Life
  • True
  • Religious

• I don't take investment advice from wealth managers. I have grown several businesses from scratch and amassed many millions from my publishing empire - why would I take advice from someone who has never experienced that?

  

  Felix Dennis
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• It would astonish if not amuse the older citizens to learn that I (a strange, friendless, uneducated, penniless boy, working at ten dollars per month) have been put down as the candidate of pride, wealth, and aristocratic family distinction.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Family
  • Boy
  • Pride

• Don't accumulate if you do not need. The excess of wealth in your hands is for the society, and you are the trustee for the same.

  

  Mahavira
  • Society
  • Same
  • Wealth

• We are victims of the post-Enlightenment view that the world functions like a sophisticated machine, to be understood like a textbook engineering problem and run by wonks. In other words, like a home appliance, not like the human body.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • World
  • Home
  • Words

• Before enlightenment; chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment; chop wood, carry water.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Water
  • Enlightenment
  • Wood

• Nobody owns anything but everyone is rich - for what greater wealth can there be than cheerfulness, peace of mind, and freedom from anxiety?

  

  Thomas More
  • Mind
  • Rich
  • Anxiety

• Feminism has been so co-opted, but the fact is, feminism benefits men as well.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Men
  • Benefits
  • Feminism

• For me, the struggle for women's human rights began the moment I was born in Tehran at the height of the Iranian Revolution, a time when the status of women was quickly deteriorating.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • Time
  • Women
  • Struggle

• Greed for enlightenment and immortality is no different than greed for material wealth. It is self-centered and dualistic, and thus an obstacle to true attainment. Therefore these states are never achieved by those who covet them; rather, they are the reward of the virtuous.

  

  Lao Tzu
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