The real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations.

Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.

Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.

It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.

Every individual... neither intends to promote the public interest, nor knows how much he is promoting it... he is in this, as in many other cases, led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention.

To allow the market mechanism to be sole director of the fate of human beings and their natural environment would result in the demolition of society.

-- Born 1886

Follow heaven and forsake the self.

-- Natsume Sōseki

The benefit morality gives us is economy of time and effort. The damage it does is the complete paralysis of conscience.

-- Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

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

-- Seichō Matsumoto

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

-- Jane Austen

A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.

-- Henrik Ibsen