“Critic, relent!Your hope for repentanceWill meet with disapppointment.For this is the life,Not desert tents,Not camel's milk!” CriticsDesertMilkTentsCamels Author:Abu Nuwas
“You, mad to expect repentance,Tear your robe all you want;I will never repent!” WantTearsMadRepentanceRepentRobes Author:Abu Nuwas
“I bought abandon dearAnd sold all piety for pleasure.My own free spirit I have followed,And never will I give up lust.” GivingSpiritMy OwnPleasureGiving UpLustAbandonPietyFree Spirit Author:Abu Nuwas
“The politics of our society are a conversation in which past, present and future each has a voice; and though one or other of them may on occasion properly prevail none permanently dominates, and on this account we are free.” MayPastVoiceConversationAccountsOccasionsOur SocietyPast PresentPast Present And Future Author:Michael Joseph Oakeshott
“We consider ourselves to be free because no one in our society is allowed unlimited powerno leader, faction, party or 'class', no majority, no government, church, corporation, trade, or professional association or trade union. The secret of its freedom is that it is composed of a multitude of organisations in the constitution of the best of which is reproduced that diffusion of power which is characteristic of the whole.” WholeGovernmentChurchPartySecretLeaderClassConstitutionTradeMajorityUnionsCorporationsCharacteristicsOur SocietyAssociationMultitudesUnlimitedOrganisationFactionsTrade UnionsDiffusion Author:Michael Joseph Oakeshott
“It is difficult to thinkof any circumstances where learning may be said to be impossible.” MaySaidDifficultImpossibleCircumstances Author:Michael Joseph Oakeshott
“Every human being is born an heir to an inheritance to which he can succeed only in a process of learning.” HumansProcessBornHuman BeingsSucceedInheritanceHeirs Author:Michael Joseph Oakeshott
“"You are what you eat." Nothing else. Never. If you are nourished with cow's milk and later with herbs, you'll become someone whose whole life is good only for being exploited by others.” IfsWholeLife IsWhole LifeMilkCowsHerbsLife Is Good Author:George Ohsawa
“He who thinks that macrobiotic living is merely a cure for physical ailments, however, can never really be helped. It is not a new medicine to stop pain or suffering, but rather a teaching that goes to the source of pain and eradicates it.” ThinkingPainSufferingTeachingSourceMedicineCuresAilments Author:George Ohsawa
“Some people think that macrobiotic philosophy is no more than the teaching of a diet - the eating of brown rice, carrots, and gomashio (sesame salt), others imagine that it is summed up in the statement, "Don't eat cake and sugar." How far from the truth!” PeopleThinkingPhilosophyImagineTeachingEatingStatementsDietsBrownCakeSugarSaltImagine ThatRiceCarrots Author:George Ohsawa