People want to find a ‘meaning’ in everything and everyone. That’s the disease of our age, an age that is anything but practical but believes itself to be more practical than any other age. – Pablo Picasso (1881 – 1973)… More »
人々はあらゆる物や人に「意味」を見つけたいのだ。それは我々の時代の病、決して現実的ではないのに他のどの時代よりも現実的だと信じている時代の病だ。 – パブロ・ピカソ (1881 – 1973) (Andrew MartinによるPixabayからの画像) (Google Translateのエンジンを使用した、Sound of Textによるテキスト読み上げ) More »
![IMAGE: Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one's bath (like a lump of sugar). [It is a miracle that one does not melt in one's bath.]](https://www.ok312.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/bathing-918720_640edit312-200x130.jpg)
Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one’s bath (like a lump of sugar). [It is a miracle that one does not melt in one's bath.] – Pablo Picasso (1881 – 1973) (Image… More »
あらゆることが奇跡だ。人がお風呂で（砂糖の塊みたいに）溶けてしまわないのも奇跡なんだ。 – パブロ・ピカソ (1881 – 1973) (Free-PhotosによるPixabayからの画像) (Google Translateのエンジンを使用した、Sound of Textによるテキスト読み上げ) More »
The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune. – Plutarch (46 – 119) (Image by Meine Reise geht hier leider zu Ende. Märchen beginnen mit from Pixabay) (Text-to-Speech by Sound of Text, using the engine… More »
人は、不幸の下での耐え方で測られる。 – プルタルコス［プルターク］ (46 – 119) (Meine Reise geht hier leider zu Ende. Märchen beginnen mitによるPixabayからの画像) (Google Translateのエンジンを使用した、Sound of Textによるテキスト読み上げ) More »
None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 – 1832): Elective Affinities (Image by Wolf-Henry Dreblow from Pixabay) (Text-to-Speech by Sound of Text, using the engine from Google Translate) More »
自分たちは自由なのだと信じて疑わない人々ほど絶望的な奴隷はいない。 – （ヨハン・ヴォルフガング・フォン・）ゲーテ (1749 – 1832): 『親和力』 (Wolf-Henry DreblowによるPixabayからの画像) (Google Translateのエンジンを使用した、Sound of Textによるテキスト読み上げ) More »
Amazing grace, how sweet the sound / That saved a wretch like me. / I once was lost, but now I’m found, / Was blind, but now I see. // – John Newton (1725 – 1807): Amazing Grace (Image by… More »
素晴らしい主の恵み、何と心地良い響きよ、／惨めだったこの心を救う。／さ迷うこの身を導き給い、／見えないこの目を開き給う。／／ – ジョン・ニュートン (1725 – 1807): 『アメイジング・グレイス』（【歌える訳詞】岡本健(おかもとけん) (1963 – )） (WikimediaImagesによるPixabayからの画像) / (Mircea PloscarによるPixabayからの画像) (Google Translateのエンジンを使用した、Sound of Textによるテキスト読み上げ) More »
![IMAGE: Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it. [Patriotism: Your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it. / Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it.]](https://www.ok312.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/ai-generated-9017144_640-100x67.jpg)
![IMAGE: What is the nation's treasure? The will to (achieve) enlightenment is the treasure, and one who possesses it is the nation's treasure. Therefore there is an old saying that a string of (large) jewels is not the nation's treasure; the nation's treasure is one who lights up a (small) corner of the world [one who brightens the world at his corner / one who shines light into a dark corner].](https://www.ok312.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/candle-1285146_640-100x66.jpg)
![IMAGE: Experience is the mother of wisdom. [Experience is the mother of knowledge.]](https://www.ok312.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/mind-767586_640-100x71.jpg)
