"Tea is more than an idealization of the form of drinking; it is a religion of the art of life."

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Source : Kakuzo Okakura (2008). “The Book of Tea”, p.43, Applewood Books

Okakura Kakuzo

#Life Quotes #Art Quotes #Drinking Quotes

“Forms of energy from nature gave my father trouble. He refused to believe he was going to die. He had these weird delusions. It's amazing. Along with all the great thoughts, he had all this funny stuff.”
“It was not by accident or coincidence that the rights to freedom in speech and press were coupled in a single guaranty with the rights of the people peaceably to assemble and to petition for redress of grievances. All these, though not identical, are inseparable. They are cognate rights, and therefore are united in the first Article's assurance.”

Source : "Thomas v. Collins, 323 U.S. 516". U.S. Supreme Court case, supreme.justia.com. January 8, 1945.
“If life was an arc of light that began in darkness, ended in darkness, the first part of his life had happened in ordinary glare. Here it was as though he had found a polarized lens that deepened and intensified all seen through it.”
“Visiting is a pleasure; being visited is usually a mixed or ambivalent joy. ... The visitor can always go home; the visitee is already home, trapped like a rat in a drainpipe.”
“Proof, being the highest level of reproduction activity, has an important interiorization aspect: as Yuri Manin stresses in his book Provable and Unprovable, a proof becomes such only after it is accepted (as the result of a highly rigorous process) ... Manin describes the act of acceptance as a social act; however, the importance of its personal, psychological component can hardly be overestimated.”
“Continuous, unflagging effort, persistence and determination will win. Let not the man be discouraged who has these.”
“Unlike the masses, intellectuals have a taste for rationality and an interest in facts.”
“I don't think a female running a house is a problem, a broken family. It's perceived as one because of the notion that a head is a man.”

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