Think by becoming the thing; act by becoming the thing.
物となって考え、物となって行う。
Philosophers
Kitarō Nishida
Born in 1870 in Kaga Province (present-day Ishikawa Prefecture), Nishida Kitaro was the pioneer of modern Japanese philosophy. Fusing deep Zen practice with the rigorous methods of Western philosophy, he introduced the foundational concept of 'pure experience' in his masterwork An Inquiry into the Good. As founder of the Kyoto School, he built an original philosophical system centered on the 'logic of place' — the first made-in-Japan contribution to the world's intellectual tradition.
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Kitarō Nishida's Other Quotes
The good, in a word, is the realization of personality.
To experience means to know facts just as they are. It means to abandon all self-fabrication entirely and to know in obedience to the facts.
Pure experience is the state of experience just as it is, with not the slightest addition of deliberative discrimination.
Others are others, I am I — regardless, I walk the path I walk.
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