Historical Sun Tzu

Famous quotes containing the words historical, sun and/or tzu:

    By contrast with history, evolution is an unconscious process. Another, and perhaps a better way of putting it would be to say that evolution is a natural process, history a human one.... Insofar as we treat man as a part of nature—for instance in a biological survey of evolution—we are precisely not treating him as a historical being. As a historically developing being, he is set over against nature, both as a knower and as a doer.
    Owen Barfield (b. 1898)

    And if sun comes
    How shall we greet him?
    Shall we not dread him,
    Shall we not fear him
    After so lengthy a
    Session with shade?
    Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)

    The quality of decision is like the well-timed swoop of a falcon which enables it to strike and destroy its victim.
    —Sun Tzu (6–5th century B.C.)