Category: 60. Virtue and Vice: 美徳と悪徳

We who lived in…

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IMAGE: We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of (the) human freedoms -- to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances -- to choose one's own way.

We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be… More »

強制収容所に生きた…

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IMAGE: We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of (the) human freedoms -- to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances -- to choose one's own way.

強制収容所に生きた私たちの脳裏に今も浮かぶ。粗末な小屋を歩いて回り、他人を元気づけ、最後の一切れとなったパンを惜しみなく分け与えていた人々。数にすればごく一部の人たちだったかも知れないが、それでも彼らは十分証明してくれている。人間から何もかも奪い取ろうとして最後に一つ、どうしても奪い切れないものがあることを。それは、人間として最後に残された自由だ――与えられた環境がどうあれ、その中で自らの態度を自らの意思で選び取る自由――自身の生き方を自身で選択する自由だ。 – ヴィクトール・Ｅ・フランクル (1905 – 97): 『…それでも人生にイエスと言う: ある心理学者の強制収容所体験［夜と霧］』 More »

邪なる道は言うに…

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IMAGE: Ye must leave righteous ways behind, not to speak of unrighteous ways.

邪なる(よこしまなる)道は言うに及ばず、正しき道にさえ執着してはならぬ。 – 釈尊［仏陀／釈迦牟尼］(しゃくそん［ブッダ／しゃかむに］) (紀元前566? – 前480) More »

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