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Miyamoto Musashi Quotes
| Death: | June 13, 1645 |
Total quotes: 36
Miyamoto Musashi
BirthnameDeath: June 13, 1645
Total quotes: 36
“If you get to feeling you are snarled up and are making no progress, you toss your mood away and think in your heart that you are starting everything anew.”
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Opposites
“Think of your adversaries as your own soldiers, understanding that you should do with them as you wish, intending to manipulate them freely. You are the commander, the opponents are the troops. This takes work.”
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Emptiness
“[With] my life on the line...little sissy things never even occurred to me...When one is in full combat gear, one does not think of the small things.”
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Emptiness
“When you think you are going to get into a deadlock, you stop right away and seize victory by taking advantage of a different approach.”
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Opposites
“Can hardly become a master at martial arts unless you can see the immediate in a broad context.”
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Vision
“The science of martial arts is not just a matter of reading these writings. You must practice them, roll them constantly between your fingers and your mind. You must speak and translate them.
You must execute them.”
You must execute them.”
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Conclusion
“If you can overcome 10 men, you can overcome 1,000 with 10. If you can overcome 1,000 you can overcome 10,000 with 1,000. How you handle individuals (and problems) is how your organization will.
One man becomes an army.”
One man becomes an army.”
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Emptiness
“Waiting is bad. Always quickly re-assume your attitudes to both sides, cut the enemies down as they advance, crushing them in the direction from which they attack. Whatever you do, you must drive the enemy together, as if tying a line of fishes, and when they are seen to be piled up, cut them down strongly without giving them room to move.”
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Swordfighting, strategy
“Knowing that mentality, taking straight forwardness as basic, taking the real mind as the Way, practicing martial arts in the broadcast senses, thinking correctly, clearly and comprehensively, taking emptiness as the Way, you see the Way as emptiness.
In emptiness, there is good but no evil.
Wisdom exists, logic exists, the Way exists, the mind is empty.”
In emptiness, there is good but no evil.
Wisdom exists, logic exists, the Way exists, the mind is empty.”
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Emptiness
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