„The Ni To Ichi Way of strategy is recorded in this the Book of the Void.“

— Miyamoto Musashi

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„I have been many years training in the Way of strategy, called Ni Ten Ichi Ryu, and now I think I will explain it in writing for the first time.“
— Miyamoto Musashi
„In this the Fire Book of the NiTo Ichi school of strategy I describe fighting as fire.“
— Miyamoto Musashi
„Enact strategy broadly, correctly and openly.Then you will come to think of things in a wide sense and, taking the void as the Way, you will see the Way as void.In the void is virtue, and no evil.“
— Miyamoto Musashi
„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
„Speed is not part of the true Way of strategy.“
— Miyamoto Musashi
„I take up my brush to explain the true spirit of this Ichi school as it is mirrored in the Way of heaven and Kwannon. The time is the night of the tenth day of the tenth month, at the hour of the tiger.“
— Miyamoto Musashi
„I just run. I run in void. Or maybe I should put it the other way: I run in order to acquire a void.“
— Haruki Murakami
„There is an invisible book of life that faithfully records our vigilance or our neglect.“
— Jr.
„If you merely read this book you will not reach the Way of strategy. Absorb the things written in this book. Do not just read, memorise or imitate, but so that you realise the principle from within your own heart study hard to absorb these things into your body.“
— Miyamoto Musashi