Nishitani Keiji Quotes on Truth
Nishitani Keiji was a Japanese philosopher and one of the principal figures of the second generation of the Kyoto School. This page collects quotes attributed to Nishitani Keiji on the topic of truth, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Nishitani Keiji:
“Nihilism, properly understood, is the gateway to religion.”
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Attributed to Nishitani Keiji:
“Sunyata, emptiness, is the foundation of true selfhood.”
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Attributed to Nishitani Keiji:
“Meaninglessness is the ground from which meaning grows.”
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Attributed to Nishitani Keiji:
“Only the standpoint of emptiness can hold together being and nothing.”
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“In principle, when we distinguish being from beings, we transcend the realm of things that are. It is not that we go to some other world beyond the world we know, or enter into some different realm of beings. Such notions constitute, for Heidegger, a vulgar form of metaphysics with which true philosophy (metaphysics as science) has nothing in common. Philosophy does not go beyond beings ontically to other beings that dwell beyond or behind. It transcends beings ontologically in the direction of being.”
p. 163.