A Quote by D.T. Suzuki

Fundamentally the marksman aims at himself.

D.T. Suzuki

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D.T. Suzuki
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October 18, 1870 - July 12, 1966

Fundamentally, our Lord's message was Himself. He did not come merely to preach a Gospel; He himself is that Gospel.

J. Sidlow Baxter

alent is like the marksman who hits a target which others cannot reach; genius is like the marksman who hits a target, as far as which others cannot even see.

Arthur Schopenhauer

God aims to exalt Himself by working for those who wait for Him.

John Piper

To become fully alive a person must have goals and aims that transcend himself.

Herbert Otto Gille

Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity.

Leo Tolstoy

The greatest risk to man is not that he aims to high and misses, but that he aims to low and hits.

Michelangelo

Because ethics is fundamentally about questioning the ends, the goals and aims of our actions, we must come back to the rules and ask why. So we must return to the philosophy of law, the raison d'etre and the point of what we're asked to do. It's not easy, it's very demanding and it needs intellectual courage.

Tariq Ramadan

It may help to understand human affairs to be clear that most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused, not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally bad, but by people being fundamentally people.

Neil Gaiman

Most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally evil, but by people being fundamentally people.

Terry Pratchett

Weakness' is weakness only in light of the aims man sets for himself, the instruments at his disposal and the laws he imposes.

Simone de Beauvoir

No psychological health is possible unless this essential care of the person is fundamentally accepted, loved and respected by others and by himself.

Abraham Maslow

What renders man an imaginative and moral being is that in society he gives new aims to his life which could not have existed in solitude : the aims of friendship , religion , science , and art .

George Santayana

The universe is deathless; Is deathless because, having no finite self, it stays infinite. A sound man by not advancing himself stays the further ahead of himself, By not confining himself to himself sustains himself outside himself: By never being an end in himself he endlessly becomes himself.

Laozi

[There] is something fundamentally unpatriotic in the yearning to fundamentally transform your country.

Jonah Goldberg

He who aims at making an entire and perfect oblation of himself, in addition to his will, must offer his understanding, which is a further and the highest degree of obedience.

Saint Ignatius

No gun is perfectly true. So the marksman, that he may hit the bull's-eye, points elsewhere.

George Iles

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