Those who cannot feel the littleness of great things in themselves are apt to overlook the greatness of little things in others.
Okakura KakuzoFor life is an expression, our unconscious actions the constant betrayal of our innermost thought. Perhaps we reveal ourselves too much in small things because we have so little of the great to conceal. The tiny incidents of daily rouitine are as much a commentary of racial ideas as the highest flight of philosophy or poetry.
Okakura KakuzoFain would we remain barbarians, if our claim to civilization were to be based on the gruesome glory of war.
Okakura Kakuzo