Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki (1870 – 1966), Living Book, The Sacred, The Seeker Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki Quote – “It is useless for the ‘self’ to try to ‘purify itself’…” It is useless for the “self” to try to “purify itself,” or for the “self” to “make a place in itself” for God. Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki (1870 – 1966)