Kakuzo Okakura: Greatness

Kakuzo Okakura was Japanese scholar, author of The Book of Tea. Explore interesting quotes on greatness.

Kakuzo Okakura: 32 quotes 1 like

“Those who cannot feel the littleness of great things in themselves are apt to overlook the greatness of little things in others.”

Kakuzo Okakura

Feeling

“We catch a glimpse of the great river of science which never ceases to flow in India. For India has carried and scattered the data of intellectual progress for the whole world, ever since the pre-Buddhist period when she produced the Sankhya philosophy and the atomic theory.”

Kakuzo Okakura

Quoted from Gewali, Salil (2013). Great Minds on India. New Delhi: Penguin Random House.

World , Science

“Asia is one. The Himalayas divide, only to accentuate, two mighty civilisations, the Chinese with its communism of Confucius, and the Indian with its individualism of the Vedas. But not even the snowy barriers can interrupt for one moment that broad expanse of love for the Ultimate and Universal, which is the common thought-inheritance of every Asiatic race, enabling them to produce all the great religions of the world, and distinguishing them from those maritime peoples of the Mediterranean and the Baltic, who love to dwell on the Particular, and to search out the means, not the end, of life.”

Kakuzo Okakura

The Ideals of the East with Special Reference to the Art of Japan, 1903. Okakura, Kakuzō (1903). The Ideals of the East with Special Reference to the Art of Japan. London: J. Murray. p. 1.

Religion , Search , People , Communication