The Underlying Sickness Of Human Life Is

On July 26, 1916, I Announced To All My Friends In America That From Now On I Resolved To Write No More Poems In The Classical Language, And To Begin My Experiments In Writing Poetry In The So-called Vulgar Tongue Of The People.

Only When We Realize That There Is No Eternal, Unchanging Truth Or Absolute Truth Can We Arouse In Ourselves A Sense Of Intellectual Responsibility.

In Such Diffused Changes Of Culture Two Factors Are Necessary: Contact And Understanding.

The Most Outstanding Characteristic Of Eastern Civilization Is To Know Contentment, Whereas That Of Western Civilization Is Not To Know Contentment. Contented Easterners Are Satisfied With Their Simple Life And Therefore Do Not Seek To Increase Their Material Enjoyment... They Are Satisfied With Their Present Lot And Environment And Therefore Do Not Want To Conquer Nature But Merely Be At Home With Nature And At Peace With Their Lot.

The Knowledge That Mankind Needs Is Not The Way Or Principle Which Has An Absolute Existence, But The Particular Truths For Here And Now And For Particular Individuals. Absolute Truth Is Imaginary, Abstract, Vague, Without Evidence, And Cannot Be Demonstrated.