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

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Source : Okakura Kakuzo (2012). “The Book of Tea: Classic Edition”, p.13, Tuttle Publishing

Okakura Kakuzo

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“I find it hard to believe that human beings are the crowning achievement of life on earth. Something better than us has to come along.”
“As to the evil which results from censorship, it is impossible to measure it, because it is impossible to tell where it ends.”

Source : Jeremy Bentham, Etienne Dumont (1840). “Theory of Legislation”, p.152
“In completing one discovery we never fail to get an imperfect knowledge of others of which we could have no idea before, so that we cannot solve one doubt without creating several new ones.”
“There are those who suffer and grow strong; there are those who suffer and grow weak. This mystery of pain is still for me the saddest of earth's disabilities.”
“Lord, send Your life throughout the entire church. Visit Your church; restore sound doctrine and holy, earnest living. Take away from professing Christians their love of frivolities, their attempts to meet the world on it's own ground, and give back the old love of the doctrines of the Cross and Christ. May free grace and dying love again be the music that refreshes the church and makes her heart exceeding glad.”
“If it's a woman it's caustic, if it's a man it's authority, If it's a woman it's too pushy, if it's a man it's aggressive in the best sense of the word.”
“After exponential quantities the circular functions, sine and cosine, should be considered because they arise when imaginary quantities are involved in the exponential.”
“You have to be on the pitch to play football.”

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