D. T. Suzuki Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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I tell people in Chicago to take care of themselves.
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I'm a journalist and author. I make my living by finding things out and writing about them.
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You have to find out how to become the character.
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I'm twitchy. I think I've got ADD. I find it hard to sit down. I need to be constantly challenged; otherwise, I get very... well, I guess 'bored' is the word.
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It's so hard for me to wrap my head around the concept of truth, I don't even know what people mean by it.
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I don't think Bosnia is ready for reconciliation, but I do think it is ready for truth.
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You've got to understand, people are motivated by fun. And they should be.
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I could write and help a lot of kids, or teach and help a few and go nuts.
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A novel is a great act of passion and intellect, carpentry and largess. From the very beginning, I wrote to explain my own life to myself, and I invited readers who chose to make the journey with me to join me on the high wire.
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In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
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I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.
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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
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Intuition and concepts constitute... the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge.
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Say yes to everything.
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An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog.
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I talk about Beyonce too much. I am a diehard.
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Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence!
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Art is subject to arbitrary fashion.
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I would love to write something that people would still read 50 or 100 years from now. That comes with growing older, I think.
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When you live in an environment where you aren't allowed to be fully who you are, you aren't taken seriously, and you aren't respected. What that actually does to a person's confidence and psyche is really fascinating to me.
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Live life for the moment, because everything else is uncertain.
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The universe is a really interesting place. I couldn't live anywhere else.
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Teaching is good for me. It forces me to articulate ways of doing things or rules of thumb that I've sort of taken for granted.
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The ego-shell in which we live is the hardest thing to outgrow.
