Middle Way Quotes

19 quotes by 18 authors

• In politics the middle way is none at all. — John Adams
• Harmonizing opposites by going back to their source is the distinctive quality of the Zen attitude, the Middle Way: embracing contradictions, making a synthesis of… — Taisen Deshimaru
• The middle way is still driving on the wrong side of the road; it still permits the killing of the fox for pleasure. One cannot… — Lyndon Harrison, Baron Harrison
• There is no middle way. We cannot compromise on cruelty. — Tony Banks, Baron Stratford
• The intention of this way of life [voluntary simplicity] is not to dogmatically live with less. It's a more demanding intention of living with balance.… — Duane Elgin
• The Buddha's insight into the middle way is not simply about a balance between extremes. This conventional understanding misses the deeper revelation of the middle… — Adyashanti
• For us, terrorism remains the great evil of our time, and the war against this evil, our generation’s great cause … There is no middle… — Richard Perle
• The decision must be made between Judaism and Christianity, between business and culture, between male and female, between the race and the individual, between unworhtiness… — Otto Weininger
• Life is one, said the Buddha, and the Middle Way to the end of suffering in all its forms is that which leads to the… — Christmas Humphreys
• Destroy or be destroyed-there is no middle way! Let us then be the destroyers! — Mikhail Bakunin
• Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both;… — Seneca the Younger
• Our task is to strike a balance, to find a middle way, to learn not to overextend ourselves with extraneous activities and preoccupations, but to… — Sogyal Rinpoche
• Damn'd neuters, in their middle way of steering, Are neither fish, nor flesh, nor good red herring. — John Dryden
• The middle way cannot be achieved by dividing two extremes in half. — Eric Maisel
• The twentieth century ended with its dreams in ruins. The notion of the community as a voluntary association of enlightened citizens has died forever. We… — J. G. Ballard
• As human beings, not only do we seek resolution, but we also feel that we deserve resolution. However, not only do we not deserve resolution,… — Pema Chodron
• Instead of making others right or wrong, or bottling up right and wrong in ourselves, there's a middle way, a very powerful middle way...... Could… — Pema Chodron
• There is simply no other choice than this: either to abstain from interference in the free play of the market, or to delegate the entire… — Ludwig von Mises
• The middle way is a view of life that avoids the extreme of misguided grasping born of believing there is something we can find, or… — Sharon Salzberg

Who Wrote These Middle Way Quotes

18 authors contributed a total of 19 Middle Way Quotes as follows:

• 2 Middle Way Quotes by Pema Chodron
• 1 Middle Way Quote by Otto Weininger
• 1 Middle Way Quote by Christmas Humphreys
• 1 Middle Way Quote by Mikhail Bakunin
• 1 Middle Way Quote by Seneca the Younger
• 1 Middle Way Quote by Sogyal Rinpoche
• 1 Middle Way Quote by John Dryden
• 1 Middle Way Quote by Eric Maisel
• 1 Middle Way Quote by J. G. Ballard
• 1 Middle Way Quote by Ludwig von Mises
• 1 Middle Way Quote by Sharon Salzberg
• 1 Middle Way Quote by John Adams
• 1 Middle Way Quote by Taisen Deshimaru
• 1 Middle Way Quote by Lyndon Harrison, Baron Harrison
• 1 Middle Way Quote by Tony Banks, Baron Stratford
• 1 Middle Way Quote by Duane Elgin
• 1 Middle Way Quote by Adyashanti
• 1 Middle Way Quote by Richard Perle