"Perhaps - and this goes for the Kyoto School too - one of these insights is that nothingness and unknowing don't have to be equated with a destructive nihilism but with the experience of unity and participation - whilst resisting the tendency of objectifying metaphysics to claim that we can in some way 'know' that this experienced unity is really the truth of how things are, i.e., reveals being itself."

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Source : "Towards hope". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. July 18, 2014.

George Pattison

#School Quotes #Kyoto Quotes #Unity Quotes

“The worst thing you can be is a liar. . . . Okay, fine, yes, the worst thing you can be is a Nazi, but then number two is liar. Nazi one, liar two.”
“Follow your pain as if it were a candle in the night, leading you to a place of decision.”
“Often, the thing we pursue most passionately is but a substitute for the one thing we really want and cannot have.”
“I am a teacher and the reason I'm a teacher is because I'm learning as hard as I can. I'm not any different from anybody else. I am searching and having some success finding answers.”
“People say it's a movie about boxing, but... I don't agree at all. I don't think it's a movie about boxing. Boxing is like a platform. It's just a stage where this is played out.”
“Life is not an exact science, it is an art.”

Source : Samuel Butler (2014). “The Notebooks of Samuel Butler”, p.440, The Floating Press
“In life, we will always encounter difficult people. Don't allow them to frustrate you or steal your joy.”

Source : FaceBook post by Victoria Osteen from Jun 08, 2013
“Food's delicate. You have to handle it with finesse. You can't just be a big ogre.”

Source : "Burger Queen" by Lauren Collins, www.newyorker.com. November 22, 2010.

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