Anything can become excusable when seen from the standpoint of the result
Interpretation
The outcomes of actions can justify the choices made, regardless of their morality.
This quote by Yukio Mishima suggests that individuals often judge actions not by their inherent nature but by the results they produce. It implies that the end can potentially justify the means, leading us to consider how our perspectives on morality may shift based on the consequences of our deeds.
In practice
In a motivational speech about achieving goals regardless of challenges faced.
What I wanted was to die among strangers, untroubled, beneath a cloudless sky. And yet my desire differed from the sentiments of that ancient Greek who wanted to die under the brilliant sun. What I wanted was some natural, spontaneous suicide. I wanted a death like that of a fox, not yet well versed in cunning, that walks carelessly along a mountain path and is shot by a hunter because of its own stupidity.
a samurai is a total human being, whereas a man who is completely absorbed in his technical skill has degenerated into a ‘function’, one cog in a machine.
When a captive lion steps out of his cage, he comes into a wider world than the lion who has known only the wilds. While he was in captivity, there were only two worlds for him - the world of the cage, and the world outside the cage. Now he is free. He roars. He attacks people. He eats them. Yet he is not satisfied, for there is no third world that is neither the world of the cage nor the world outside the cage.
…the samurai ethic is a political science of the heart, designed to control such discouragement and fatigue in order to avoid showing them to others. It was thought more important to look healthy than to be healthy, and more important to seem bold and daring than to be so. This view of morality, since it is physiologically based on the special vanity peculiar to men, is perhaps the supreme male view of morality.
Young people get the foolish idea that what is new for them must be new for everybody else too. No matter how unconventional they get, they're just repeating what others before them have done.
Is there not a sort of remorse that precedes sin? Was it remorse at the very fact that I existed?
Each man's life represents a road toward himself.
I went to get a detective story. You have to kill time. But time will kill me too - and there´s the true, preestablished balance.
He that accepts protection, stipulates obedience.
Being called Black in America is the struggle to keep us moving and breathing over bloody water. Being a Nig**r or [Ni**a] without the context of history is like drowning in bloody water, dragging down those yet knowing to swim.
Each of us must turn inward and destroy in himself all that he thinks he ought to destroy in others.
We all have souls of different ages
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