Sake Quotes - Page 21
For God's sake build not your faith upon Tradition, 'tis as rotten as a rotten Post.
Nicholas Culpeper (1698). “The English Physician Enlarged: With Three Hundred Sixty and Nine Medicines, Made of English Herbs, that Were Not in Any Impression Until This. Being an Astrologo-physical Discourse of the Vulgar Herbs of this Nation; Containing a Compleat Method of Physick, Whereby a Ma May Preserve His Body in Health, Or Cure Himself, Being Sick, for Three Pence Charge, with Such Things Only as Grow in England, They Being Most Fit for English Bodies. Herein is Also Shewed These Seven Things, Viz. 1. The Way of Making Plaisters, Oyntments, Oyls, Pultisses, Syrups, Decoctions, Juleps Or Waters, of All Sorts of Physical Herbs, ... 7. The Way of Mixing Medicines According to the Cause and Mixture of the Disease, and Part of the Body Afflicted. By Nich. Culpeper, Gent. Student in Physick and Astrology”, p.273
Our walking is not a means to an end. We walk for the sake of walking.
Thich Nhat Hanh, Nguyen Anh-Huong (2006). “Walking Meditation”, p.15, Sounds True
Knowledge for the sake of knowledge! Truth for truth's sake! This is inhuman.
Miguel de Unamuno (1977). “The Tragic Sense of Life in Men and Nations”, p.33, Princeton University Press
Michel de Montaigne (1877). “Essays”, p.257
Maya Angelou (2011). “Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now”, p.8, Bantam
Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2015). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius The Golden Sayings Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.41, Lulu.com
Mahatma Gandhi, K. Swaminathan (1988). “A Gandhi Reader”, Stosius Incorporated/Advent Books Division
Mahatma Gandhi (2011). “The Way to God: Selected Writings from Mahatma Gandhi”, North Atlantic Books
You cannot neglect the nearer duty for the sake of a remote.
Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works”
Mohandas Karmchand Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi, V. Geetha (2004). “Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace”, p.268, Tara Publishing