| Author Quoted | Kitaro Nishida |
| Title Quoted | study of good / Kitaro Nishida ; transl. by V.H. Viglielmo |
| Date (Year/Month/Day) | 1965/03/05 |
| Imprint | Tokyo : Print. Bureau. Japanese Govt. 1960 |
| Quotation | Nishida Kitaro-just what I am looking for. For example I see my objection to the cliche about "meaningful experienc" (as if it was "meaninglessness" that made experience somehow real and worth while. "Experienc" is made "meaningful" by being referred to something else, a system, or perhaps a report of someone else's experiences, and therefore its quality is diminished. So the ambiguity of meaningfulness is exposed. When experience is "meaningful" in this sense it is unreal-or less real. To live always outside of experience as if this were a fullness of experience: this is one of the basic ambiguities of written thought). |
| Quotation Source | Dancing in the Water of Life: Seeking Peace in the Hermitage. The Journals of Thomas Merton, Volume 5, 1963-1965.; Edited by Robert E. Daggy. / San Francisco : Harper Collins. 1997, p. 214 |
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