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Yoshida Kenko Quotes

Yoshida Kenko quotes

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Yoshida Kenko quote: " For such as truly love the world, a thousand years would fade..."
... For such as truly love the world, a thousand years would fade like the dream of one night. Yoshida Kenko
Is there any of the usual social occasions which it is not difficult to avoid? But if you decide that you cannot very well ignore your worldly obligations, and that you will therefore carry them out properly, the demands on your time will multiply, bringing physical hardship and mental tension; in the end, you will spend your whole life pointlessly entangled in petty obligations. Yoshida Kenko
A certain recluse, I know not who, once said that no bonds attached him to this life, and the only thing he would regret leaving was the sky. Yoshida Kenko
The pleasantest of all diversions is to sit alone under the lamp, a book spread out before you, and to make friends with people of a distant past you have never known. Yoshida Kenko
Even those who have an air of being wise judge of others only, and do not know themselves. It cannot be in reason to know others and not to know oneself. Therefore one who knows himself may be said to be a man who has knowledge. Though our looks be unpleasing, we do not know it. We do not know that our skill is poor. We do not know that our station is lowly. We do not know that we grow old in years. We do not know that sickness attacks us. We do not know that death is near. We do not know... Yoshida Kenko
If you must take care that your opinions do not differ in the least from those of the person with whom you are talking, you might just as well be alone. Yoshida Kenko
To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations - such is pleasure beyond compare. Yoshida Kenko
It is a great error to be superior to others....It is such pride as this that makes a man appear a fool, makes him abused by others, and invites disaster. A man who is truly versed in any art will of his own accord be clearly aware of his own deficiency; and therefore, his ambition being never satisfied, he ends by never being proud. Yoshida Kenko
As a rule the tales which get abroad in the world are false. . . . People always exaggerate things. More so, when months and years have passed and the place is distant do they relate any story they please, or even it put down in writing, so that at least it becomes established fact. . . . Anyhow, it is a world that is full of lies, and we shall make no mistake if we make up our minds that what we hear is really not at all strange and unusual but merely exaggerated in the telling. Yoshida Kenko
Emptiness accommodates everything. I wonder if thoughts of all kinds intrude themselves at will on our minds because what we call our minds are vacant. If minds were occupied surely so many things would not enter them. Yoshida Kenko
Yoshida Kenko quote: "Blossoms are scattered by the wind and the wind cares nothing,..."
Blossoms are scattered by the wind and the wind cares nothing, but the blossoms of the heart no wind can touch. Yoshida Kenko
What a strange demented feeling it gives me when I realize that I have spent whole days before this inkstone, with nothing better to do, jotting down at random whatever nonsensical thoughts have entered my head. Yoshida Kenko
You should never put the new antlers of a deer to your nose and smell them. They have little insects that crawl into the nose and devour the brain. Yoshida Kenko
Yoshida Kenko quote: "Leave undone whatever you hesitate to do."
Leave undone whatever you hesitate to do. Yoshida Kenko
Yoshida Kenko quote: "The truth is at the beginning of anything and its end are..."
The truth is at the beginning of anything and its end are alike touching. Yoshida Kenko

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