“Was not their mistake once more bred of the life of slavery that they had been living?—a life which was always looking upon everything, except mankind, animate and inanimate—‘nature,’ as people used to call it—as one thing, and mankind as another, it was natural to people thinking in this way, that they should try to make ‘nature’ their slave, since they thought ‘nature’ was something outside them” — William Morris


Friday, November 23, 2012

Schopenhauer and Buddha

Which one said "You will not be punished for your anger. You will be punished by your anger"?

Answer: either of them.



1 comment:

the one who articulates said...

would it then make sense to say, "you will not be liberated for your skillful activity, but by your skillful activity?"

(you can replace liberated and skillful with a host of other terms)