Fukuzawa Yukichi Quotes

#1. There were two main points I wanted to get across in Valentine, the first being that yes, Valentine's Day is an arbitrary day, but why would you not take that excuse to celebrate love? The second point ... since it is just an arbitrary day ... why not treat every day like Valentine's Day?

Kina Grannis

#2. To be concerned with the issue; soul versus non-soul, is to be in bondage to craving for becoming and non-becoming.

Gautama Buddha

#3. The hardest part of design ... is keeping features out.

Donald A. Norman

#4. Not grace, or zeal, love only was my call,
And if I lose thy love, I lose my all.

Alexander Pope

#5. It is quite beneath the dignity of a person holding a Bachelor of Arts degree to engage in such a vulgar occupation as the writing of novels.

Fukuzawa Yukichi

#6. Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity; for if man's power is increased, the checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened.

Madame De Stael

#7. The general's daughter? We'd be fools not to. You talk about her as if she's made of spun glass. Know what I see? Steel.

Marie Rutkoski

#8. An occasion, catalyst, or tripwire?permits the poet to reach into herself and haul up whatever nugget of the human condition distracts her at the moment, something that can't be reached in any other way.

Diane Ackerman

#9. Whatever happens in the country, whatever warfare harasses our land, we will never relinquish our hold on Western learning. As long as this school of ours stands, Japan remains a civilized nation of the world.

Fukuzawa Yukichi

#10. I think I have made it clear that I never intended to make enemies. But in an age when anti-foreign sentiment was running high, it was unavoidable that in my position as an advocate of open intercourse and free adoption of Western culture, I should make some adversaries.

Fukuzawa Yukichi

#11. In its broad sense, civilization means not only comfort in daily necessities but also the refining of knowledge and the cultivation of virtue so as to elevate human life to a higher plane.

Yukichi Fukuzawa

#12. I am an artist first and a photographer second.

Andres Serrano

#13. Therefore, to teach them [women] at least an outline of economics and law is the first requirement after giving them a general education. Figuratively speaking, it will be like providing the women of civilized society with a pocket dagger for self-protection.

Fukuzawa Yukichi

#14. Grandpa's mind had left us, gone wild and wary. When I walked with him I could feel how strange it was. His thoughts swam between us, hidden under rocks, disappearing in weeds, and I was fishing for them, dangling my own words like baits and lures.

Louise Erdrich

#15. "The person next to me meditates better than I do. They're purer." - This is the ego feeling sorry for itself.

Frederick Lenz

#16. Each individual man and each individual country, according to the principles of natural reason, is free from bondage. Consequently, if there is some threat that might infringe upon a country's freedom, then that country should not hesitate even to take up arms against all the countries of the world.

Fukuzawa Yukichi

#17. Like his illustrious predecessor, Parsons did not see the two disciplines of science and magic as contradictory.

George Pendle

#18. The independence of a nation springs from the independent spirit of its citizens

Alan Macfarlane

#19. Facts are subversive

I. F. Stone

#20. It is said that heaven does not create one man above or below another man. Any existing distinction between the wise and the stupid, between the rich and the poor, comes down to a matter of education.

Fukuzawa Yukichi