There should be two…
There should be two ways in life, the way to make a living and the way to really live on. However, most people only think about how to get their living in this world. – Taro Okamoto [Okamoto Tarō] (1911… More »
There should be two ways in life, the way to make a living and the way to really live on. However, most people only think about how to get their living in this world. – Taro Okamoto [Okamoto Tarō] (1911… More »
It is commonly said that some people stand at the crossroads in their lives, but that is not accurate. In truth, everyone is always standing at a fork in the path in their life. Should they go this way or… More »
Everyone seems to think that life is cumulative. On the contrary, I think it should be unloaded. The more wealth and knowledge one accumulates, the more freedom one loses. If you stick to the accumulation of the past, you will… More »
When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery. – Maxim Gorki [Gorky] (1868 – 1936) More »
労働が楽しみなら、人生は喜び! 労働が務めなら、人生は苦しみ。 – マクシム・ゴーリキー (1868 – 1936) More »
For me, art is life itself. I would like to emphasize that art is the way of life that lives the most intensely as a human being, unconditionally exuding life and exploding. “Art is (an) explosion”…but what I call (an)… More »
ぼくが芸術というのは生きることそのものである。人間として最も強烈に生きる者、無条件に生命をつき出し爆発する、その生き方こそが芸術なのだということを強調したい。“芸術は爆発だ”……が、私の言う「爆発」は……音もしない。物も飛び散らない。全身全霊が宇宙に向かって無条件にパーッとひらくこと。それが「爆発」だ。人生は本来、瞬間瞬間に、無償、無目的に爆発しつづけるべきだ。いのちのほんとうの在り方だ。 – 岡本太郎 (1911 – 1996): 『自分の中に毒を持て』 (slowrabbit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 »
Tell me not, in mournful numbers, / “Life is but an empty dream!” // For the soul is dead that slumbers, / And things are not what they seem. // Life is real! Life is earnest! / And the grave… More »
悲しげな詩で、私に告げるな、/「人生はただ虚しい夢!」などと、//目覚めていない魂は死んでいるのだから、/物事は見えるとおりではないのだから。//人生は本物! 人生は本気!/死が人生のゴールではない;//「汝塵なれば、塵に帰るべし」とは、/(肉体のことであって)魂を述べたものではなかった。// – ヘンリー・W・ロングフェロー (1807 – 82): 『人生の詩篇(青年の心が詩人に言ったこと)』 (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 »
Life would be tragic if it weren’t funny. – Stephen (William) Hawking (1942 – 2018) (Image by Gordon Johnson from Pixabay) (Text-to-Speech by Sound of Text, using the engine from Google Translate) More »