Author: nickvooi

QOTD: "When we read, another person thinks for us, we merely repeat his mental process." Arthur Schopenhauer

QOTD: “No one knowingly does evil.” Socrates

QOTD: "The peasants knew that a spoiled son did more harm to a family than a dead one, and they kept themselves from indulging him too much..." Lee Min Jin (author), Pachinko

QOTD: "In less than twenty years Japan has acquired the knowledge it has taken us centuries to learn." George Rittner, Impressions of Japan (1904)

QOTD: "Perfect is the enemy of good" Voltaire

QOTD: "This is the case with many learned person, they have read themselves stupid." Arthur Schopenhauer

QOTD: “I thought that no matter how many hills and brooks you crossed, the whole world was Korea and everyone in it was Korean.” —Park Wan-suh

QOTD: "You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.” ― Marcus Aurelius

QOTD: “Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit answered to, in strongest conjuration.”— Charles Dickens

QOTD: "People are rotten everywhere you go. They’re no good. You want to see a very bad man? Make an ordinary man successful beyond his imagination. Let’s see how good he is when he can do whatever he wants.” Koh Hansu in Pachinko