"In the worship of Bacchus, we have sacrificed……" — Okakura Kakuzo
"In the worship of Bacchus, we have sacrificed too freely.... Why not consecrate ourselves to the queen of the Camelias, and revel in the warm stream of sympathy that flows from her altar? In the liquid amber within the ivory-porcelain, the initiated may touch the sweet reticence of Confucius..."
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Okakura Kakuzo
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23 Quotes by Okakura Kakuzo
Okakura Kakuzo has 23 quotes on this site.
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It is not the accumulation of extraneous knowledge, but the realization of the self within, that constitutes true progress.
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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 is a work of art and needs a master hand to bring out its noblest qualities. We have good…
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Tea began as a medicine and grew into a beverage.
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Those who cannot feel the littleness of great things in themselves are apt to overlook the greatness of little things…
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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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Meanwhile, let us have a sip of tea. The afternoon glow is brightening the bamboos, the fountains are bubbling with…
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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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The platform of an Ethical Society is itself the altar; the address must be the fire that burns thereon.
— Felix Adler
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Everyone knows the beautiful story of Abraham and the sacrifice of Isaac. How this noble father led his child to…
— Annie Besant
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For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar…
— Aeschylus
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Ritual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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When men do not love their hearth, nor reverence their thresholds, it is a sign that they have dishonoured both…
— John Ruskin
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The whole earth, perpetually steeped in blood, is nothing but an immense altar on which every living thing must be…
— Joseph de Maistre
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Frances and Courtney, I'll be at your altar. Please keep going, Courtney, for Frances, for her life will be so…
— Kurt Cobain
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Are you making no progress in prayer? Then you need only offer God the prayers which the Savior has poured…
— Margaret Mary Alacoque
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Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altar of conformity and popularity.
— Charles Spurgeon
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The clergy ... believe that any portion of power confided to me [as President] will be exerted in opposition to…
— Thomas Jefferson
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When any church will inscribe over its altar, as its sole qualification for membership, the Savior's condensed statement of the…
— Abraham Lincoln
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Arm yourselves, and be ye men of valor, and be in readiness for the conflict; for it is better for…
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