DIOGENES different manifestations of the same

ultimate reality.
- We come into the world alone and we die
alone. Why, in life, should we be any less
alone?
EPICURUS
- He who is not satisfied with a little, is
satisfied with nothing.
- Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able?
Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but
not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he
both able and willing? Then whence cometh
evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then
why call him God?
ARISTOTLE
TAO TE CHING, LAO TZU
- When people see things as beautiful,
ugliness is created.
- When people see things as good, evil is
created.
- Being and non-being produce each other.
- Difficult and easy compliment each other.
- Long and short define each other.
- High and low oppose each other.
- Fore and aft follow each other.
LAO TZU
- To the mind that is still, the whole universe
surrenders.

- Be a free thinker and don’t accept

- The usefulness of a pot comes from its
everything you hear as truth. Be critical and
emptiness. Empty yourself of everything. Let
evaluate what you believe in.
your mind become still.

- Excellence is never an accident. It is always

- When I let go of who I am, I become what I
the result of high intention, sincere effort,
might be.
and intelligent execution; it represents the
wise choice of many alternatives- choice,
- The best people are like water, which
not chance, determines your destiny.
benefits all things and does not compete
with them. It stays in lowly places that
MARCUS AURELIUS others reject. That’s why it’s similar to the
Dao.
- Very little is needed to make a happy life; It
is all within yourself, in your way of
thinking.
SUN TZU
- Avoid what is strong and strike at what is
EPICTETUS weak.

- We suffer not from the events in our lives,

- Supreme excellence consists in breaking the
but from our judgement about them.
enemy’s resistance without fighting.

FRITJOF CAPRA
- All things are seen as interdependent and
- To know your enemy, you must become
inseparable parts of this cosmic whole as
your enemy.
- It’s more important to out-think your enemy - Fleas and lice biting
than to outfight him.
Awake all night
- All warfare is based on deception. Hence, A horse pissing close to my ear
when we are able to attack, we must seem
unable; when using our forces, we must
appear inactive; when we are near, we must
make the enemy believe we are far away;
when far away, we must make him believe
we are near.

CONFUCIUS
- Do not do unto others what you don’t want
done to yourself.

- Let the ruler be a ruler, the subject a

subject, a father a father, a son a son.

- The relation between superiors and inferiors

is like that between the wind and grass: the
grass must bend when the wind blows
across it.

SEN NO RIKYU
- If you have one teapot and can brew your
tea in it, that will do quite well. How much
does he lack himself who must have a lot of
things?

MATSUO BASHO
- Old pond
A frog leaps in
Water’s sound

- First cherry
Budding
By peach blossoms