"The outsider may indeed wonder at this seeming……" — Okakura Kakuzo
"The outsider may indeed wonder at this seeming much ado about nothing. What a tempest in a tea-cup! he will say. But when we consider how small after all the cup of human enjoyment is, how soon overflowed with tears, how easily drained to the dregs in our quenchless thirst for infinity, we shall not blame ourselves for making so much of the tea-cup."
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Okakura Kakuzo
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23 Quotes by Okakura Kakuzo
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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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