Time is what keeps everything from happening at once. – Ray Cummings [Raymond King Cummings] (1887 – 1957): The Girl in the Golden Atom (Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay) (Text-to-Speech by Sound of Text, using the engine from Google… More »
時間とは、あらゆることが一度に起こらないようにするためのもの。 – レイ・カミングス［レイモンド・キング・カミングズ］ (1887 – 1957): 『黄金の原子の中の少女』 (Gerd Altmann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 »
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 »
![IMAGE: The usefulness of (the) useless. [Everyone knows the usefulness of useful things, but no one knows the usefulness of useless things. / Everyone knows the use of the useful, but not the use of the useless.] (Even if something did not bring immediate benefit, it could still turn out to be valuable.)](https://www.ok312.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/place-name-sign-822236_640-100x71.jpg)
![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: He that falls today may rise [be up] tomorrow (again). / Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.](https://www.ok312.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/falling-24_slippery-15_step-98_stairs-15_forest-78-100x75.jpg)
![IMAGE: Know thyself. [Know yourself.]](https://www.ok312.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/bustos-756620_640-100x67.jpg)
