“The spirit of barter is everywhere. Honour and Chastity! Behold the complacent salesman retailing the Good and True. One can even buy a so-called Religion, which is really but common morality sanctified with flowers and music. Rob the Church of her accessories and what remains behind? Yet the trusts…”— Kakuzō Okakura, amazon.com
“Our standards of morality are begotten of the past needs of society, but is society to remain always the same?”— Kakuzō Okakura, amazon.com