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“To ask may be but a moment's shame, not to ask and remain ignorant is a lifelong shame.”

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Kano Jigoro, born on October 28, 1860, and died on May 4, 1938, was a renowned Japanese martial artist and one of the founders of Judo. He is often referred to as the 'Father of Judo' and had a profound impact on the development of modern Judo. more

“Nothing can be surprising any more or impossible or miraculous, now that Zeus, father of the Olympians has made night out of noonday, hiding the bright sunlight, and... fear has come upon mankind. After this, men can believe anything, expect anything. Don't any of you be surprised in future if land beasts change places with dolphins and go to live in their salty pastures, and get to like the sounding waves of the sea more than the land, while the dolphins prefer the mountains.”

Ifs Men Believe Made Night Father Impossible Sea Land Mankind Mountain Wave Beast Hiding Surprising Sunlight Miraculous Dolphins Zeus Pastures Olympian Salty

Author:Archilochus

“These golden matters Of Gyges and his treasuries Are no concern of mine. Jealousy has no power over me, Nor do I envy a god his work, And I do not burn to rule. Such things have no Fascination for my eyes.”

Matter Eye Mines Concern Envy Golden Fascination Treasury

Book:Archilochos, Sappho, Alkman: three lyric poets of the late Greek Bronze Age

Source: Archilochos, Sappho, Alkman: three lyric poets of the late Greek Bronze Age

“Everyone has to have either this or that problem, if he can't find any problem, he loses all reason for living.”

Ifs Reason Problem Loses Adversity

Author:Gao Xingjian

“If everyone is a hero, then disasters and atrocities lose their meaning. It's only when certain people are heroes and others are not that these tragedies and disasters that mankind faces take on meaning.”

People Ifs Faces Certain Loses Mankind Hero Tragedy Disaster Atrocities

Author:Gao Xingjian

“The human need for language is not simply for the transmission of meaning, it is at the same time listening to and affirming a person's existence.”

Needs Humans Persons Language Existence Listening Human Needs Transmission Affirming

Author:Gao Xingjian

“The enterprise of describing something in language that has never been described before is a very difficult thing to do. When you decide to do away with old cliches or old phraseologies, and to come up with a new way of saying something, it's extremely difficult.”

Way Language Difficult Come Up Things To Do Enterprise New Ways Cliche Describing Difficult Things

Author:Gao Xingjian

“Language is inherently not concerned with logic. As an expression of the psychological activities of humankind, it simply follows a linear process as it seeks actualisation. Moreover, it does not obey the objective concepts of time and space that belong to the physical world. When the discussion of time and space is imported into linguistic art from scientific aims and research methods, that linguistic art is entirely reduced to trifling pseudo-philosophical issues.”

“Literature is subservient to nothing but truth.”

Literature Subservient

Author:Gao Xingjian

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