quotes by Okakura Kakuzo

""Those who cannot feel the littleness of great things in themselves are apt to overlook the greatness of little things in others.""
— Okakura Kakuzo (Book Of Tea)

"We must know the whole play in order to properly act our parts; the conception of totality must never be lost in that of the individual."
— Okakura Kakuzo (Book Of Tea)

"The Taoist and Zen conception of perfection... the dynamic nature of their philosophy laid more stress upon the process through which perfection was sought than upon perfection itself. True beauty could be discovered only by one who mentally completed the incomplete. The virility of life and art lay in its possibilities for growth."
— Okakura Kakuzo (Book Of Tea)