Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts

Bruce Lee’s use of aphorism generally consists of starting with a familiar and

traded and conceptualized and squeezed into a pattern of systems.

Lee pointed out that “We have more faith in what we imitate than in what we originate,” with the result that we are encouraged—and have opted—to look to anyone but ourselves for the answers to our most unsettling questions. Too many are confused about whom to trust, suspicious of their own impulses and uncertain of their futures. Spirits have been

important aspect of life, then positioning it to awaken people to the problems inherent in the conventional assumptions made on the topic. The result of Lee’s statement is that the reader is now compelled to think for himself about the issue, which leads the individual to produce his own answer. Lee always challenged his students (both in the class

Lee held that if there is a “way” then it most assuredly is somebody else’s—not yours—with the result that following it would lead you further away from the truth that resides within you. It is for this reason, as Lee indicates below, that it is imperative that the free spirit not mistake any book-including this one—or its contents for the truth, f

The life of perfection is the simple life. — A simple life is one of plainness, in which profit is discarded, cleverness abandoned, selfishness eliminated, and desires reduced. It is the life of perfection which seems to be incomplete, and of fullness which seems to be empty. It is the life which is as bright as light, but does not dazzle. In short

The way of death. — Through the ages, the end for heroes is the same as for ordinary men. They all died and gradually faded away in the memory of man.

The fundamental relationship between existence and cognition. — To doubt is to think, and thought is the only thing in

To Bruce Lee, philosophy was not the professional playground of academics, but every human being’s gateway to the greatest adventure of the human spirit.