Leia

“In the world at large, people who are able to free themselves from this self-centered way of thinking are truly uncommon. Above all, when one stands to gain or lose, it is exceptionally difficult to step outside of oneself and make correct judgments, and thus one could say that people who are able to think Copernicus-style even about these things are exceptionally great people. Most people slip into a self-interested way of thinking, become unable to understand the facts of the matter, and end up seeing only that which betters their own circumstances.”
― Genzaburo Yoshino, How Do You Live?

“Over such a great distance, he thought, all the way from the earth to the moon up there, an invisible power is working.”
― Genzaburo Yoshino, How Do You Live?

“People working in great hardship and those of us living in relative happiness are completely cut off from each other in our daily lives, but actually we are bound together by an unbreakable net. So if we don’t care about those people and we live thinking only of our own happiness, that is wrong, is it not?”
― Genzaburo Yoshino, How Do You Live?

“To appreciate art, you must use your inner eyes and ears. You must open your heart.”
― Genzaburo Yoshino, How Do You Live?