"He'd been mistaken in thinking that if he killed himself the sordid bourgeois world would perish with him."

"What transforms this world is — knowledge. Do you see what I mean? Nothing else can change anything in this world. Kn…"

"There is something that even now strikes me as strange. Originally I was not possessed by gloomy thoughts. My concern…"

"We Japanese must reveal the true form of our imperial land, in which the sovereign and the people are gloriously unit…"

"‘The human body is the work of art. It doesn’t need artists.’ But the artist replies: ‘Okay, let’s say you’re right. …"

"According to Eshin's "Essentials of Salvation," the Ten Pleasures are but a drop in the ocean when compared to the jo…"

"By means of microscopic observation and astronomical projection the lotus flower can become the foundation for an ent…"

"Just let matters slide. How much better to accept each sweet drop of the honey that was Time, than to stoop to the vu…"

"We tend to suffer from the illusion that we are capable of dying for a belief or theory. What Hagakure is insisting i…"

"I want to make a poem of my life."