„Some other schools have a liking for extra-long swords. From the point of view of my strategy these must be seen as weak schools.“

— Miyamoto Musashi

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„Students of the Ichi school Way of strategy should train from the start with the sword and long sword in either hand. This is the truth: when you sacrifice your life, you must make fullest use of your weaponry. It is false not to do so, and to die with a weapon yet undrawn.“
— Miyamoto Musashi
„Some of the world's strategists are concerned only with sword fencing, and limit their training to flourishing the long sword and carriage of the body. But is dexterity alone sufficient to win? This is not the essence of the Way.I have recorded the unsatisfactory points of other schools one by one in this book.“
— Miyamoto Musashi
„In this the Fire Book of the NiTo Ichi school of strategy I describe fighting as fire.“
— Miyamoto Musashi
„You are disoriented. Blackness swims toward you like a school of eels who have just seen something that eels like a lot.“
— Douglas Adams
„Without the correct principle the fight cannot be won.The spirit of my school is to win through the wisdom of strategy, paying no attention to trifles. Study this well.“
— Miyamoto Musashi