When you cannot be deceived by men you will have realised the wisdom of strategy. — Miyamoto Musashi Copy Share Image
Cutting down the enemy is the way of strategy, and there is no need for many refinements of it. — Miyamoto Musashi Copy Share Image
You win battles by knowing the enemy's timing, and using a timing which the enemy does not expect. — Miyamoto Musashi Copy Share Image
In battle, if you you make your opponent flinch, you have already won. — Miyamoto Musashi Copy Share Image
The bow is tactically strong at the commencement of battle, especially battles on a moor, as it is possible to shoot quickly… — Miyamoto Musashi Copy Share Image
When the enemy starts to collapse you must pursue him without the chance of letting go. If you fail to take advantage… — Miyamoto Musashi Copy Share Image
When you appreciate the power of nature, knowing the rhythm of any situation, you will be able to hit the enemy naturally… — Miyamoto Musashi Copy Share Image
In all forms of strategy, it is necessary to maintain the combat stance in everyday life and to make your everyday stance… — Miyamoto Musashi Copy Share Image
This is truth: When you sacrifice your life, you must make fullest use of your weaponry. It is false not to do… — Miyamoto Musashi Copy Share Image
As if with the nut and flower, the nut has become less than the flower... both those teaching and those learning are… — Miyamoto Musashi Copy Share Image
From inside fortifications, the gun has no equal among weapons. It is the supreme weapon on the field before the ranks clash,… — Miyamoto Musashi Copy Share Image
It is imperative to master the principles of the art of war and learn to be unmoved in mind even in the… — Miyamoto Musashi Copy Share Image
Also by training you will be able to freely control your own body, conquer men with your body, and with sufficient training… — Miyamoto Musashi Copy Share Image
In strategy your spiritual bearing must not be any different from normal. Both in fighting and in everyday life you should be… — Miyamoto Musashi Copy Share Image
There is no one way to salvation, whatever the manner in which a man may proceed. All forms and variations are governed… — Miyamoto Musashi Copy Share Image
“In all forms of strategy, it is necessary to maintain the combat stance in everyday life and to make your everyday stance… — Miyamoto Musashi Copy Share Image
If you want to learn the craft of war, ponder over this book. The teacher is as a needle, the disciple is… — Miyamoto Musashi Copy Share Image
The halberd is inferior to the spear on the battlefield. With the spear you can take the initiative, the halberd is defensive. — Miyamoto Musashi Copy Share Image
If there is a Way involving the spirit of not being defeated, to help oneself and gain honour, it is the Way… — Miyamoto Musashi Copy Share Image
“In single combat you must not fix the eyes on the details. As I said before, if you fix your eyes on… — Miyamoto Musashi Copy Share Image
The spirit of defeating a man is the same for ten million men. The strategist makes small things into big things, like… — Miyamoto Musashi Copy Share Image
When you have attained the way of strategy there will be nothing that you cannot understand. You will see the way in… — Miyamoto Musashi Copy Share Image
To cut and slash are two different things. Cutting, whatever form of cutting it is, is decisive, with a resolute spirit. Slashing… — Miyamoto Musashi Copy Share Image
Do not let your spirit be influenced by your body, or your body be influenced by your spirit. Be neither insufficiently spirited… — Miyamoto Musashi Copy Share Image
Fourthly, the way of the artisan. The way of the carpenter is to become proficient in the use of his tools, first… — Miyamoto Musashi Copy Share Image
Second is the way of the merchant. The wine maker obtains his ingredients and puts them to use to make his living.… — Miyamoto Musashi Copy Share Image
“In a battle of martial arts, victory is in knowing the rhythms of your various opponents, in using a rhythm your opponent… — Miyamoto Musashi Copy Share Image
You should not have a favourite weapon. To become over-familiar with one weapon is as much a fault as not knowing it… — Miyamoto Musashi Copy Share Image
Crossing at a ford occurs often in a man's lifetime. It means setting sail even though your friends stay in harbour, knowing… — Miyamoto Musashi Copy Share Image
A bullet from a gun does not make a distinction between practice and combat. You are training to be one and the… — Miyamoto Musashi Copy Share Image
Polish your wisdom: learn public justice, distinguish between good and evil, study the ways of different arts one by one. — Miyamoto Musashi Copy Share Image
Thirdly, the gentleman warrior, carrying the weaponry of his way. The way of the warrior is to master the virtue of his… — Miyamoto Musashi Copy Share Image
there is nothing outside of yourself that can ever enable you to get better, stronger, richer, quicker, or smarter. Everything is within. Everything exists.… — Miyamoto Musashi Copy Share Image
You win battles by knowing the enemy's timing, and using a timing which the enemy does not expect. — Miyamoto Musashi Copy Share Image
“The heart of Stepping on the Sword, something used principally in the martial arts, is that even with bows and firearms, you must act… — Miyamoto Musashi Copy Share Image
“When you and your opponent are fighting and nothing is going right, nor is there progress, be of a mind to throw off your… — Miyamoto Musashi Copy Share Image
No man is invincible, and therefore no man can fully understand that which would make him invincible — Miyamoto Musashi Copy Share Image
If there is a Way involving the spirit of not being defeated, to help oneself and gain honour, it is the Way of Strategy. — Miyamoto Musashi Copy Share Image
Generally speaking, the Way of the warrior is resolute acceptance of death. — Miyamoto Musashi Copy Share Image
People in this world look at things mistakenly, and think that what they do not understand must be the void. This is not the… — Miyamoto Musashi Copy Share Image
