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Quote by Kitarō Nishida
I have always been a miner of ore; I have never managed to refine it.
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This quote compares creating ideas or work to mining and refining metal. The speaker describes themselves as someone who finds raw material but does not turn it into a polished, finished form. It suggests a strength in discovery, alongside a limitation in shaping what has been found.
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- Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, “Nishida Kitarō”
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