小さいころは、自分が死ねば世界は消えると思っていた。幼稚な妄想！自分はいないのに世界が続くのは許せなかった。の英語

When I was a kid, I thought that if I died the world would just disappear. What a childish delusion! I just couldn't accept that the world could continue to exist without me.

Sometimes I wonder if this world is just in someone's head, and he dreams us all into existence. Perhaps it's even me.

As soon as we are born, the world gets to work on us and transforms us from merely biological into social units.

Life would be terribly monotonous and deadly boring if everyone felt, thought and spoke the same.

I think it is certain that there is intelligent life in this universe, but the likelihood of that life coming to Earth is practically nill.

I think it is certain that there is intelligent life in this universe, but the likelihood of that life coming to Earth is practically nil.

For world peace, therefore, we must develop the consciousness that we are all one people of planet Earth through continual international cultural and economic exchange.

Living organisms had existed on earth, without ever knowing why, for over three thousand million years before the truth finally dawned on one of them.

Just because people are corporeal born to this world doesn't mean that they understand everything about it, similarly just because somebody's died doesn't mean that they understand everything about the incorporeal world.

The emotion they gave me was exquisite, but I could not preserve it, nor could I indefinitely repeat it; the most beautiful things in the world finished by boring me.

Aged people like to keep the world the way it is. On the other hand young people love to change the world.

The present is the line drawn between past and future. If there is not life on this line, then there is no life anywhere.

I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving.

But a man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

For many years I thought that it was beauty alone that gave significance to life and that the only purpose that could be assigned to the generations that succeed one another on the face of this crowded earth was to produce an artist now and then.

I may have nothing now, but I shall always have something to remember, while you have no memories at all.

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

The act known as terrorism, that rips away from us in an instant our peaceful days of happiness, is certainly worthy of being called an enemy to all mankind.

The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.

In the greatest of all works of art everything had been realized, I could give nothing, and my restless mind tired of passive contemplation.

To lie is to deceive oneself. The impression you give to others is not really you, but a person who doesn't really exist.

the theory that the universe originated sometime between 10 billion and 20 billion years ago from the cataclysmic explosion of a small volume of matter at extremely high density and temperature

When, one day, computers undertake to translate literary works, it will be the end of literature as we know it.

All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

If one has the right to live, then one should also have the right to die. If not, then living is not a right, but an obligation.

17th century theology (named after its founder Jacobus Arminius) that opposes the absolute predestinarianism of John Calvin and holds that human free will is compatible with God's sovereignty

every fact in the world might be singular...unlike any other fact and sole of its kind-William James

Science and technology have come to pervade every aspect of our lives and, as a result, society is changing at a speed which is quite unprecedented.

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, not the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.