“There is no music without structure, but structure alone is not music.”
Ryuichi Sakamoto
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Philosophy Quotes
205 quotes on philosophy and the big questions — from the classics to the everyday.
“I started to feel that silence itself is music.”
Ryuichi Sakamoto
“I think music is the most universal language, and it is a language that can say things that words cannot.”
Ryuichi Sakamoto · Interview, Red Bull Music Academy, 2014
“The sound of rain needs no translation.”
Ryuichi Sakamoto
“Ars longa, vita brevis.”
Hippocrates · Aphorisms
“Technology is neither good nor bad; nor is it neutral.”
Melvin Kranzberg · Kranzberg's First Law, 1986
“I would like to die on a day when I am feeling nothing. Like water.”
Ryuichi Sakamoto · Interview, 2017
“Music is not something you create. It is something you discover.”
Ryuichi Sakamoto
“The superior man is satisfied and composed; the mean man is always full of distress.”
Confucius · The Analects, Book VII
“He who learns but does not think is lost. He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.”
Confucius · The Analects, Book II
“Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.”
Confucius · The Analects, Book II, c. 5th century BCE
“He who attends to his greater self becomes a great man, and he who attends to his smaller self becomes a small man.”
Mencius · Mencius, Book VI A
“The people are the most important element in a nation; the spirits of the land and grain are the next; the sovereign is the lightest.”
Mencius · Mencius, Book VII B
“To act without clear understanding, to form habits without examining them, to follow a path all your life without knowing where it goes — this is the behavior of the multitude.”
Mencius · Mencius, Book VII A
“The way of truth is like a great road. It is not difficult to know it. The evil is only that men will not seek it.”
Mencius · Mencius, Book VI B
“The feeling of commiseration is the beginning of humanity; the feeling of shame is the beginning of righteousness.”
Mencius · Mencius, Book II A
“Benevolence is the heart of man, and righteousness is the path of man.”
Mencius · Mencius, Book VI A
