The history of humanity is also a history of excavating hidden facts.

Facts show a different face depending on how they are written.

人の意見を聞いてから出る知恵は、本当の知恵ではない。

-- The peasant who became ruler of all Japan

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.

-- Ernest Hemingway

Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

-- George Orwell

History is a chain of wills attempting to transmit something.

-- Yasushi Inoue

Beauty is always discovered in the actualities of living.

-- Junichiro Tanizaki

A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

-- Thomas Mann