"For life is an expression, our unconscious actions……" — Okakura Kakuzo
"For life is an expression, our unconscious actions the constant betrayal of our innermost thought. Perhaps we reveal ourselves too much in small things because we have so little of the great to conceal. The tiny incidents of daily rouitine are as much a commentary of racial ideas as the highest flight of philosophy or poetry."
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Okakura Kakuzo
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23 Quotes by Okakura Kakuzo
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Tea is more than an idealization of the form of drinking; it is a religion of the art of life.
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Tea began as a medicine and grew into a beverage.
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In Japan, I took part in a tea ceremony. You go into a small room, tea is served, and that's…
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Tea...is a religion of the art of life.
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Teaism is a cult founded on the adoration of the beautiful among the sordid facts of everyday existence. It inculcates…
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True beauty could be discovered only by one who mentally complete the incomplete.
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Translation is always a treason, and as a Ming author observes, can at its best be only the reverse side…
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Let us dream of evanescence, and linger in the beautiful foolishness of things.
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