Understanding comes hard to persons of high rank who are accustomed to phony lifestyles that involve no daily work.

Understanding comes hard to persons of high rank who are accustomed to phony lifestyles that involve no daily work.

The ideal teacher student relationship exists when the student is better than the teacher.

There could be joy in destruction, too, couldn't there? Isn't Jesus Christ's Second Coming supposed to occur only after a lot of unmitigated destruction? But again, human history is fraught with tragedies in which man spared no effort to destroy with millenarian joy, only to learn that no messiah appeared afterwards.

The ambiguous orientation of Japan drove the country into the position of an invader in Asia.

Even though we now have the half-century-old new Constitution, there is a popular sentiment of support for the old one that lives on in reality in some quarters.

The destination of the soul: this is what I, led on by Nils Holgersson, came to seek in the literature of Western Europe. I fervently hope that my pursuit, as a Japanese, of literature and culture will, in some small measure, repay Western Europe for the light it has shed upon the human condition.