D. T. Suzuki Quotes

Among the most remarkable features characterizing Zen we find these: spirituality, directness of expression, disregard of form or conventionalism, and frequently an almost wanton delight in going astray from respectability.

D. T. Suzuki

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• I believe in absolute freedom of expression. Everyone has a right to offend and be offended.

  

  Taslima Nasrin
  • Believe
  • Freedom
  • Expression

• Beauty without expression is boring.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Beauty
  • Expression
  • Boring

• I thought Sarah Palin was the ultimate expression of comic outrageousness in a person.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Person
  • Thought
  • Expression

• Rising anti-Semitism is rarely the lone or the last expression of intolerance in a society.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Society
  • Expression
  • Last

• Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.

  

  Vera Brittain
  • Politics
  • Human
  • Expression

• It's one of the functions of the theater to shock and titillate and appall, apart from entertain and delight.

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • Theater
  • Delight
  • Shock

• It's got to be the ballot or the bullet. The ballot or the bullet. If you're afraid to use an expression like that, you should get back in the cotton patch, you should get back in the alley.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Afraid
  • Expression
  • Cotton

• We should purify our innate well of contentment - what a wonderful expression - and then external things will be in harmony with us.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Will
  • Expression
  • Harmony

• The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Expression
  • Played
  • Relation

• The early expression of my youth was filled with all the aspects of art.

  

  Felix de Weldon
  • Art
  • Expression
  • Youth

• From a person standpoint, the old expression of what doesn't kill you makes you stronger is somewhat true.

  

  Vince McMahon
  • True
  • Expression
  • Stronger

• Whoever speaks of Europe is wrong: it is a geographical expression.

  

  Otto von Bismarck
  • Wrong
  • Expression
  • Europe

• I hate that expression, 'fusion.' What it means to me is this movement where nothing ever really fused.

  

  Wayne Kramer
  • Hate
  • Me
  • Expression

• Our expression and our words never coincide, which is why the animals don't understand us.

  

  Malcolm de Chazal
  • Why
  • Words
  • Animals

• There's nothing wrong with showing sexuality. If you have that inside, it's just an expression of who you are. If you want to share that with people, that's amazing. I love that.

  

  Camila Cabello Fifth Harmony
  • Love
  • For Her
  • For Him

• 'The Lady's World' should be made the recognized organ for the expression of women's opinions on all subjects of literature, art and modern life, and yet it should be a magazine that men could read with pleasure.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • World
  • Pleasure

• To me, spirituality means 'no matter what.' One stays on the path, one commits to love, one does ones work; one follows one's dream; one shares, tries not to judge, no matter what.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • Work
  • Dream
  • Judge

• Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest enough.

  

  Mark Twain
  • Man
  • Honest
  • Expression

• The great commander, who seemed by expression of his visage to be always on the look-out for something in the extremest distance, and to have no ocular knowledge of anything within ten miles, made no reply whatever.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Knowledge
  • Distance
  • Expression

• It is necessary to correct the error that vegetarianism has made us weak in mind, or passive or inert in action. I do not regard flesh-food as necessary at any stage.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Mind
  • Correct
  • Vegetarianism

• Once you pay attention to your physical sensations, the next step is to label them, as in “When I feel anxious, I feel a crushing sensation in my chest.

  

  Bessel van der Kolk
  • Anxious
  • Sensation
  • Pay Attention

• Among the most remarkable features characterizing Zen we find these: spirituality, directness of expression, disregard of form or conventionalism, and frequently an almost wanton delight in going astray from respectability.

  

  D. T. Suzuki
  • Expression
  • Delight
  • Spirituality