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"Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.” ~W.A.Mozart



"官能なき精神は、精神なき官能同様、芸術家にとっては、希求するに値しない。 "

"不可思議なことは、最も単純なものは最も偉大な人によってのみ表現されるということ、そして最も複雑なものは街路に転がっているということである。
偉大さとは魂のうちにある。"

~Wilhelm Furtwangler



"The beautiful is hidden from the eyes of those who are not searching for the truth, for whom it is contra-indicated. But the profound lack of spirituality of those people who see art and condemn it, the fact that they are neither willing or ready to consider the meaning and aim of their existence in any higher sense, is often masked by the vulgarly simplistic cry, ‘I don’t like it!’ ‘It’s boring!’ It is not a point that one can argue; but it is like the utterance of a man born blind who is being told about a rainbow. He simply remains deaf to the pain undergone by the artist in order to share with others the truth he has reached."
~Andrei Tarkovsky



"That which is impenetrable to us really exists.
Behind the secrets of nature remains something subtle, intangible, and inexplicable. Veneration for this force beyond anything that we can comprehend is my religion. "
~ Albert Einstein



"Three passions have governed my life:
The longings for love, the search for knowledge,
And unbearable pity for the suffering of [humankind].

Love brings ecstasy and relieves loneliness.
In the union of love I have seen
In a mystic miniature the prefiguring vision
Of the heavens that saints and poets have imagined.

With equal passion I have sought knowledge.
I have wished to understand the hearts of [people].
I have wished to know why the stars shine.

Love and knowledge led upwards to the heavens,
But always pity brought me back to earth;
Cries of pain reverberated in my heart
Of children in famine, of victims tortured
And of old people left helpless.
I long to alleviate the evil, but I cannot,
And I too suffer.

This has been my life; I found it worth living."
~Bertrand Russell



"This tremendous world I have inside of me.
How to free myself, and this world, without tearing myself to pieces…And rather tear myself to a thousand pieces than be buried with this world within me."
~ the diaries of Franz Kafka

"ひとを愛するものは無限を持つ　
無限の悦びと　無限の寂寥をもつ"
~大島博光