By the Way of the warrior is meant death. The Way of the warrior is death. This means choosing death whenever there is a choice between life and death. It means nothing more than this. It means to see things through, being resolved.
Yamamoto Tsunetomo
Related Bushido is realized in the presence of death. This means choosing death whenever there is a choice b... TSUNETOMO YAMAMOTO I have found that the Way of the samurai is death. This means that when you are compelled to choose ... YAMAMOTO TSUNETOMO Generally speaking, the Way of the warrior is resolute acceptance of death MIYAMOTO MUSASHI Generally speaking, the Way of the warrior is resolute acceptance of death. MIYAMOTO MUSASHI But that means that the Eucharist is far more than just a meal; it has cost a death to provide it, a... JOSEPH RATZINGER When life is victorious, there is birth; when it is thwarted, there is death. A warrior is always en... MORIHEI UESHIBA I want to die in my own way. It's my illness, my death, my choice. This is what saying yes means. JENNY DOWNHAM “A warrior thinks of death when things become unclear. The idea of death is the only thing that te... 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DAVID HORNER This appetite to choose death by pleasure if it is available to choose - this appetite of your peopl... DAVID FOSTER WALLACE This is the price we pay, that the only way to take our life is death. STEBBY JULIONATAN At birth man is offered only one choice --the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by... JEAN-PIERRE MELVILLE It is a brave act to despise death; but where life is more terrible than death, it is then the trues... SIR THOMAS BROWNE The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself. PUBLILIUS SYRUS To only see ‘death’ in death is to somehow assume that death itself is a barrier so abrupt that ... CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH Death and genitals are things that frighten people, and when people are frightened, they develop mea... NOAM CHOMSKY In the dualism of death and life there is a harmony. We know that the life of a soul, which is finit... RABINDRANATH TAGORE The pomp of death is far more terrible than death itself. 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The essential point in all response is the desire to... JOHN DEWEY Complete adaptation to environment means death. The essential point in all response is the desire t... JOHN DEWEY
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