Truisms - The Pithy Pearls of Wisdom

"Ikeda: “Terrorism and bloody ethnic conflicts are less clashes of civilization than clashes of the anger, egoism and brutality inherent in life and disguised as narrow nationalism and fanatical religious ideas.”

"Ikeda: People sometimes need help in persevering in their faith. That is where organizations are useful."

"(Young people) repay trust with trust. Older people who lament the diminished capacities of the young may only be revealing the meanness of their own abilities."

"Though their traditions differ, instead of dwelling on each other’s failings, religions ought to celebrate each other’s merits..."

"In direct opposition to the hatred and destructiveness dividing society, (all) humanity is inherently endowed with living compassion and creativity..."

"French philosopher Henri Bergson (1859-1941) said that philosophy is only profound common sense..."