Fain would we remain barbarians, if our claim to civilization were to be based on the gruesome glory of war.

- Okakura Kakuzo

Tea...is a religion of the art of life.

- Okakura Kakuzo

Teaism is a cult founded on the adoration of the beautiful among the sordid facts of everyday existence. It inculcates purity and harmony, the myster…

- Okakura Kakuzo

In joy or sadness, flowers are our constant friends.

- Okakura Kakuzo

In our common parlance we speak of the man "with no tea" in him, when he is insusceptible to the serio-comic interests of the personal drama.

- Okakura Kakuzo

Tea began as a medicine and grew into a beverage.

- Okakura Kakuzo

Let us dream of evanescence, and linger in the beautiful foolishness of things.

- Okakura Kakuzo

Cares melt when you kneel in your garden.

- Okakura Kakuzo

True beauty could be discovered only by one who mentally complete the incomplete.

- Okakura Kakuzo