Quotes from Nishida Kitarō's books, and about them
An Inquiry into the Good on The Republic: “In his famous work The Republic, Plato equates the organization of the human mind with the organization of the state, and says that the state governed by reason is the highest good for both state and individual. [auto-translated]”
An Inquiry into the Good on Symposium: “In his famous Symposium, Plato says that 'love is the longing of that which is lacking to return to its original wholeness.' [auto-translated]”
An Inquiry into the Good on Tannisho: “The Tannisho likewise says, 'Even the nembutsu I recite while striving in my own heart for rebirth is practiced as my own effort (self-power).' Nishida cites it to show that chanting merely to gain rebirth is not true religious feeling. [auto-translated]”
An Inquiry into the Good on Personality, Human and Divine: “Illingworth, in Personality Human and Divine, says: 'A personality necessarily seeks other personalities; in other personalities the self finds the satisfaction of its whole personality; love is thus an indispensable mark of personality.' [auto-translated]”
An Inquiry into the Good on Principles of Psychology: “Just as a geometer imagines one triangle and uses it to stand for all triangles, the representative element of a concept is, when present, only a kind of feeling (James, The Principles of Psychology, Vol. I, Chap. VII). [auto-translated]”
An Inquiry into the Good on A World of Pure Experience: “Even the so-called fringe of consciousness, once admitted among the facts of immediate experience, brings in the consciousness of relations between experienced facts, just like sensation and perception (James, A World of Pure Experience). [auto-translated]”
An Inquiry into the Good on Grundriss der Psychologie: “The term experience is not clearly defined; Wundt, for instance, calls knowledge inferred from experience 'indirect experience' and treats physics and chemistry as sciences of indirect experience (Wundt, Grundriss der Psychologie). [auto-translated]”
An Inquiry into the Good on Logik: “As Wundt said, every judgment arises from the analysis of a complex representation (Wundt, Logik, Bd. I, Abs. III, Kap. 1). [auto-translated]”
An Inquiry into the Good on Analytic Psychology: “Even when it is a reproduction of past consciousness, once it is unified in present consciousness and becomes an element with a new meaning, it can no longer be called identical with the past consciousness (Stout, Analytic Psychology, Vol. II, p. 45). [auto-translated]”