Nishida Quotes

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Yuki Suetsugu
“People with goals are just on a different level.”
Yuki Suetsugu, ちはやふる 3 [Chihayafuru 3]

Yuki Suetsugu
“Everything changes. Nothing stays unchanging. Then, in what way should I change? In what way can I change?”
Yuki Suetsugu, ちはやふる 28

Yuki Suetsugu
“The only thing I can do is learn as much as I can and become stronger.”
Yuki Suetsugu, ちはやふる 28

“Nishida has been sharply criticized after the war for lending his support to the imperial (ist) ideology of the Japanese government, but these criticisms have not led—as in Heidegger's case—to a thorough questioning of his philosophy.”
Bernard Faure, Chan Insights and Oversights

“Their common interest in Western mystics like Meister Eckhart led both Nishida and Suzuki to misrepresent Christianity as some kind of inferior version of Mahayäna Buddhism, thus reversing the old schemas applied to the East by Westerners.”
Bernard Faure, Chan Insights and Oversights

“With [D. T.] Suzuki, Zen coopted the whole field of Japanese culture and, imposing on Japanese ideology the myth of transparency, claimed the status of a transcendental spirituality. With Nishida [Kitarō] and the Kyoto school, Zen acquired a crosscultural philosophical status. Thus, through the work of Suzuki, Nishida and their successors, a new field of discourse was created—one that differs markedly from the earlier Chan/Zen discourse (s) it claimed to replicate or interpret.”
Bernard Faure, Chan Insights and Oversights