Yagyu Quotes

#1. I know nothing about how to win over others. I know only the way know the way to win over myself.
attributed to the (master) swordsman Yagyu, who was a teacher (and samurai?) to the Shogun himself.

Tsunetomo Yamamoto

#2. Papa continually emphasizes how much remains unexplained. With the other psychoanalytic writers, everything is always so known and fixed.

Anna Freud

#3. The continually moving mind is philosophically symbolized by the avatar Fudo Myo-o, the Wisdom King, often depicted holding a sword in one hand for cutting through ignorance, and a rope in the other for tying up passions.

Yagyu Munenori

#4. See first with your mind, then with your eyes, and finally with your body.

Yagyu Munenori

#5. The sky is the sky wherever you go.

Yagyu Jubei Mitsuyoshi

#6. Most of my friends from Columbia are going on to get advanced degrees. And why not? A Ph.D. is the new M.A., a master's is the new bachelor's, a B.A. is the new high school diploma, and a high school diploma is the new smiley-face sticker on your first-grade spelling test.

Megan McCafferty

#7. However much, as readers, we lose ourselves in a novel or story, fiction itself is an experience on the order of memory -not on the order of actual occurrence.

Samuel R. Delany

#8. It is bias to think that the art of war is just for killing people. It is not to kill people, it is to kill evil. It is a strategem to give life to many people by killing the evil of one person.

Yagyu Munenori

#9. I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.

John F. Kennedy

#10. The undisturbed mind is like the calm body water reflecting the brilliance of the moon. Empty the mind and you will realize the undisturbed mind.

Yagyu Jubei Mitsuyoshi

#11. Once a fight has started, if you get involved in thinking about what to do, you will be cut down by your opponent with the very next blow.

Yagyu Munenori

#12. Memories drifting and piling up quietly, like letters on the doormat of an empty house.

Lucy Wood

#13. You should strike at the moon in the water.

Yagyu Munenori

#14. When you strike a blow, do not let your mind dally on it, not concerning yourself with whether or not it is a telling blow; you should strike again and again, over and over, even four or five times. The thing is not to let your opponent even raise his head.

Yagyu Munenori

#15. Conquering evil, not the opponent is the essence of swordsmanship.

Yagyu Munenori