Richard West

“Learning without thought is labour lost; thought without learning is perilous.”
― Confucius, The Sayings of Confucius

“To study the Buddha Way is to study the self. To study the self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be actualized by myriad things. When actualized by myriad things, your body and mind as well as the bodies and minds of others drop away. No trace of enlightenment remains, and this no-trace continues endlessly.”
― Dogen

“To explain something to someone is first of all to show him he cannot understand it by himself.”
― Jacques Rancière, The Ignorant Schoolmaster: Five Lessons in Intellectual Emancipation

“One of the penalties of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.”
― Plato