Tsunesaburo Makiguchi Quotes

Unity of minds, natural love and co-operation, are the qualities we have to develop today. Education is not for securing university degrees.

The cultivation of sensibility on purely personal lines may, in fact, be the very worst training for a world where only the corporate and the cooperative will matter.

I believe we all grow because we share our experiences and our problems. We all have our intimate times. Why not share them?

I know what I do well, and I know what I can do with other people.

Everyone sees they cannot well live asunder, nor many together, without some rule to which all must submit.

When two people in an intimate-couple relationship look at their interactions as opportunities to learn about themselves instead of change each other, they are infusing their relationship with the energy of spiritual partnership.

I know now that there are men out there who are, for me, the whole package, who are supportive of my successes because they know I will be just as supportive of theirs. I'm less tolerant of foolishness now; I know that it's important I not tie myself up with the wrong person, because then I will miss the right person coming along.

The practice of patience toward one another, the overlooking of one another's defects, and the bearing of one another's burdens is the most elementary condition of all human and social activity in the family, in the professions, and in society.

In effect, I feel like a blind, deaf, and illiterate person working through the sensibilities and multiple, real talents of other people. Everything I do is collaborative.

What I'm really focused on is connecting people around shared interests, so together they can make good stuff happen. I'm more focused on helping people discover their power as individuals, but through those connections with one another.

You give up your narcissism, your egotism. That's how you achieve chemistry.

Two persons love in one another the future good which they aid one another to unfold.

Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

We have had in our nation a well-celebrated Declaration of Independence. But our success as a country will depend upon a new 'Declaration of Inter-dependence.' A belief in how much we need each other, how much we share one common destiny.

You can’t throw a park down and think everybody is going to mix and be happy and share picnic tables and sing songs together.

We need a strong civil society where the connection between different people and groups is firm and vibrant, not brittle and divided.

When people have compassion, friendship, and unity, they speak and think in a constructive way to ensure national independence and prosperity.

I would just say that human beings are stronger together. Relying on someone else is not a sign of weakness; it shows strength that you're able to accept that you need help.

Sometimes, my weakness is where the strength really is, and it leads me to depend in the areas where I really should.

We thought a human city is kind of like that watering hole. It's where different groups come together and have to find ways to live and survive and cohabit and cooperate, but they may not always see eye-to-eye.

When I work with other people, I try to make up for their shortcomings with my strengths, and I let others make up for my flaws with their strengths. I try to co-operate with people around me when working in a group. I like to enhance team spirit on set. I try to get everyone involved in the action.

To me, a spouse should be a life partner AND a business partner. Just like any good partner, her strengths must make up for my weaknesses and vice versa.

Any good society survives on a circulation of favours.

Feeling and thinking are actually the blind man who carries the lame.

In this world and the world of tomorrow, we must go forward together or not at all.