“The whole ideal of Teaism is a result of this Zen conception of greatness in the smallest incidents of life. Taoism furnished the basis for aesthetic ideals, Zennism made them practical.”— Kakuzō Okakura, amazon.com
“Chinese historians have always spoken of Taoism as the "art of being in the world," for it deals with the present—ourselves. It is in us that God meets with Nature, and yesterday parts from to-morrow.”— Kakuzō Okakura, amazon.com
“In ethics the Taoist railed at the laws and the moral codes of society, for to them right and wrong were but relative terms.”— Kakuzō Okakura, amazon.com