Quotes by : Sōseki Natsume

Use your intellect to guide you, and you will end up putting peopleoff. Rely on your emotions, and you....

There is nothing more difficult than understanding human mentality. My master's present mental state....

Watch birth and death:The lotus has alreadyOpened its flower.

The average novel invariably reads like a detective's report. It is drab and tedious because it is never....

The call for political freedom took place long ago. The call for freedom of speech is also a thing of....

I thought of the new stone, of my new wife, and of the newly buried white bones beneath us, and I felt....

Living as I do with human beings, the more that I observe them, the more I am forced to conclude that....

But facts, remembered or not, are all, alas, still facts

According to his thinking, man was not born for a particular purpose. Quite the opposite: a purpose developed....

I am a lonely man,' Sensei said. 'And so I am glad that you come to see me. But I am also a melancholy....