"One is not likely to achieve understanding from the explanation of another."

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Source : Takuan Sōhō (1986). “The unfettered mind: writings of the Zen master to the sword master”, Kodansha Amer Inc

Takuan Soho

#Understanding Quotes #Achieve Quotes #Explanation Quotes

“I've already bought another house in Tangier and the one in Deauville has been for sale for some time. As for Yves's Saint Laurent apartment, it is being sold because he's dead. But I won't be furnishing my home from Ikea.”
“A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.”
“To a person uninstructed in natural history, his country or sea-side stroll is a walk through a gallery filled with wonderful works of art, nine-tenths of which have their faces turned to the wall. Teach him something of natural history, and you place in his hands a catalogue of those which are worth turning around. Surely our innocent pleasures are not so abundant in this life, that we can afford to despise this or any other source of them.”
“I loved you when you were unfaithful; what would I have done if you were true?”
“You can always trust a dog that likes peanut butter.”
“If the cells and fibres in one human brain were all stretched out end to end, they would certainly reach to the moon and back. Yet the fact that they are not arranged end to end enabled man to go there himself. The astonishing tangle within our heads makes us what we are.”

Source : "Mechanics of the Mind". Book by Colin Blakemore, 1977.
“It's great to get out of the study and work with real living and breathing people.”

Source : "My week: Christopher Hampton" by Christopher Hampton, www.theguardian.com. August 1, 2009.
“He [the cat] liked to peep into the refrigerator and risk having his head shut in by the closing door. He also climbed to the top of the stove, discontinuing the practice after he singed his tail.”

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