Quotes · Skopia

32 quotes

1970

★ 1.1

Philosophical literature · Religious literature

The mind of the beginner is empty, free of the habits of the expert, ready to accept, to doubt, and open to all the possibilities.

Shunryu Suzuki

1970

★ 1.1

Philosophical literature · Religious literature

In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's mind there are few.

Shunryu Suzuki

1970

★ 1.1

Philosophical literature · Religious literature

If a warrior is not unattached to life and death, he will be of no use whatsoever.

Yamamoto Tsunetomo

1716

★ 1.2

Don't get rid of negative emotion, but just use it... Like the salt in your food.

Yoko Ono

2016

★ 1.3

Poem

Though I grieve, there is no help; Vainly I long to see her. Men tell me that my wife is In the mountains of Hagai- Thither I go, Toiling along the stony path; But it avails me not, For of my wife, as she lived in this world, I find not the faintest shadow.

Kakinomoto no Hitomaro

759

★ 1.9

The ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops, but the cultivation and perfection of human beings.

Masanobu Fukuoka

1975

★ 1.9

Newspaper

It is a terrible shame for me-I came back, still alive, without having won the war.

Shoichi Yokoi

1997

★ 1.9

Ceaselessly the river flows, and yet the water is never the same, while in the still pools the shifting foam gathers and is gone, never staying for a moment. Even so is man and his habitation.

Kamo no Chomei

1212

★ 1.9

The pleasantest of all diversions is to sit alone under the lamp, a book spread out before you, and to make friends with people of a distant past you have never known.

Yoshida Kenko

1332

★ 1.9

Autobiography and memoir

A company will get nowhere if all of the thinking is left to management.

Akio Morita

1986

★ 1.9

Philosophical literature · Religious literature

Singlemindedness is all-powerful.

Yamamoto Tsunetomo

1716

★ 2.1

Interview

Money is not for saving.

Yayoi Kusama

1999

★ 2.1

Novel

If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets.

Haruki Murakami

Kafka on the Shore · 2002

★ 2.1

Biography

If you hire only those people whom you understand, the company will never get better people than you are.

Soichiro Honda

1982

★ 3.5

Novel

Why do people have to be this lonely? What's the point of it all? Millions of people in this world, all of them yearning, looking to others to satisfy them, yet isolating themselves. Why? Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness?

Haruki Murakami

Sputnik Sweetheart · 1999

★ 3.5

Philosophical literature · Religious literature

What we call "I" is just a swinging door which moves when we inhale and when we exhale.

Shunryu Suzuki

1970

★ 3.6

One loses joy and happiness in the attempt to possess them.

Masanobu Fukuoka

1975

★ 3.6

Novel

No matter how honestly you open up to someone, there are still some things you can’t reveal.

Haruki Murakami

Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage · 2013

★ 3.6

There is nothing in the whole world so painful as feeling that one is not liked. It always seems to me that people who hate me must be suffering from some strange form of lunacy.

Sei Shonagon

1002

★ 3.7

The whole moon and the entire sky are reflected in one dewdrop on the grass.

Dogen

1253

★ 3.7

Speech

The war situation has developed not necessarily to Japan's advantage.

Emperor Hirohito

1945

★ 3.7

Novel

If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.

Haruki Murakami

Norwegian Wood · 1987

★ 3.7

Novel

Anyone who falls in love is searching for the missing pieces of themselves.

Haruki Murakami

Kafka on the Shore · 2002

★ 3.7

Obituary · Newspaper

To be an artist means never to avert one's eyes.

Akira Kurosawa

The New York Times

★ 3.7

Poem

The flowers withered, Their color faded away, While meaninglessly I spent my days in the world And the long rains were falling.

Ono no Komachi

914

★ 3.8

Novel

Memories warm you up from the inside but they also tear you apart.

Haruki Murakami

Kakfa on the Shore · 2002

★ 3.8

Interview

We believe if you have a family you can't eliminate certain members of that family because profits are down.

Akio Morita

The Sunday Telegraph · 1988

★ 4.3

Living only for the moment, turning our full attention to the pleasures of the moon, the snow, the cherry blossoms and the maples, singing songs, drinking water and diverting ourselves in just floating, floating; caring not a whit for the poverty staring us in the face, refusing to be disheartened, like a gourd floating along with the river current: this is what we call ukiyo.

Asai Ryoi

Tales of the Floating World · 1661

★ 5.2

Radio broadcast · Speech · Political speech

The enemy has begun to employ a new and most cruel bomb, the power of which to do damage is indeed incalculable, taking the toll of many innocent lives. Should we continue to fight, it would not only result in an ultimate collapse and obliteration of the Japanese nation, but also it would lead to the total extinction of human civilization. Such being the case, how are we to save the millions of our subjects, or to atone ourselves before the hallowed spirits of our imperial ancestors?... It is according to the dictate of time and fate that we have resolved to pave the way for a grand peace for all the generations to come by enduring the unavoidable and suffering what is insufferable.

Emperor Hirohito

1945

★ 5.2

Travel writing

The months and days are the travelers of eternity. The years that come and go are also voyagers... I too for years past have been stirred by the sight of a solitary cloud drifting with the wind to ceaseless thoughts of roaming.

Matsuo Basho

1694

★ 5.3

Haiku · Poem

The old pond- A frog leaps in, And a splash.

Matsuo Basho

1686

★ 7.1

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