Kitarō Nishida > Quotes

“Like any organic entity, a system of consciousness manifests itself through the orderly, differentiated development of a certain unifying reality.”
― Kitaro Nishida

“The Europeans are inclined to regard their own present culture as the only highly developed one and the best. They tend to believe that other peoples, if they are to make progress in their development, must become just like themselves. I regard this as a petty conceit. The primordial form of historical culture is, in my view, richer.”
― Kitarō Nishida

“The absolute affirms itself through its own self negation.”
― Nishida Kitaro, Last Writings: Nothingness and the Religious Worldview

“Intuition is a consciousness of unbroken progression, of reality just as it is, wherein subject and object are not yet divided and that which knows and that which is known are one. Reflection is a consciousness which, standing outside of this progression, turns around and views it.”
― Kitarō Nishida, Intuition and Reflection in Self-Consciousness (Philosophy