Top Quotes & Sayings by Yamaga Soko

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Japanese philosopher Yamaga Soko.
Last updated on December 19, 2024.
Yamaga Soko

Yamaga Sokō was a Japanese philosopher and military strategist under the Tokugawa shogunate of Edo period in Japan. As a scholar he applied the Confucian idea of the "superior man" to the samurai class of Japan. This became an important part of the samurai way of life and code of conduct.

We are born to die tomorrow, and yet through books we are able to know events of thousands of years. — © Yamaga Soko
We are born to die tomorrow, and yet through books we are able to know events of thousands of years.
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