The superior man, when resting in safety, does not forget that danger may come. — Confucius Copy Share Image
If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand. — Confucius Copy Share Image
A Confucian or Jewish love of learning would gain minorities far more than any affirmative action laws we might pass. — Richard Lamm Copy Share Image
“The Chinese dream is an American dream embedded in a Confucian cocoon.” — Patrick Mendis Copy Share Image
The Confucian concept and Chinese ideograms for 'woman' and for 'slave' are the same. — Robin Morgan Copy Share Image
The people may be made to follow a path of action but they may not be made to understand it. — Confucius Copy Share Image
Things that are done, it is needless to speak about...things that are past, it is needless to blame. — Confucius Copy Share Image
There is one God. The Jews and the Christians have no monopoly on God. I'm speaking about the same God the Hindus… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Virtue is more to man than either water or fire. I have seen men die from treading on water and fire, but… — Confucius Copy Share Image
“For ardent believers in Chinese exceptionalism, the Confucian tradition of political stability and centralized state power is the critical factor in the… — Patrick Mendis Copy Share Image
“Poetry, like remonstration, could be a form of protest; and since poets were products of the Confucian education system, extravagant military adventures… — John Keay Copy Share Image
I have not seen a person who loved virtue, or one who hated what was not virtuous. He who loved virtue would… — Confucius Copy Share Image
He with whom neither slander that gradually soaks into the mind, nor statements that startle like a wound in the flesh, are… — Confucius Copy Share Image
“The traditional Confucian structure that invoked ideals of perfect human virtue for harmony must incorporate the rule of law for the modern… — Patrick Mendis Copy Share Image
Study the past if you would define the future. I am not one who was born in the possession of knowledge; I… — Confucius Copy Share Image
If a man withdraws his mind from the love of beauty, and applies it as sincerely to the love of the virtuous;… — Confucius Copy Share Image
“76. five relationships: (oryun) One of the central concepts of Confucian philosophy, it refers to the five essential and sacred relationships that… — Heo Gyun Copy Share Image
Take the serious side of Disney, the Confucian side of Disney. It's in having taken an ethoswhere you have the values of… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
“The readings required of every Confucian scholar. The Four Books are: The Analects, The Great Learning, the Doctrine of the Mean, and… — Issai Chozanshi Copy Share Image
“In Confucian thought, individuals practice moral virtue both by restraining themselves and pursuing their own interests. This is a dual push-and-pull process.… — Patrick Mendis Copy Share Image
“I can see him now in his cart pulled by two deer, followed by a couple of servants. Once carried enough wine… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It is fundamental to both Taoist and Confucian thought that the natural man is to be trusted, and from their standpoint it… — Alan Wilson Watts Copy Share Image
In the Confucian tradition is a simple formula that appeals to me deeply: 'If there is righteousness in the heart, there will… — Eknath Easwaran Copy Share Image
“Now the best relation to our spiritual home is to be near enough to love it. But the next best is to… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“According to a Confucian view, there are four steps in social develpment, wrote Wilhem (Sr.). There are the individual, the family, the… — Hellmut Wilhelm Copy Share Image
“It was Daisuke's conviction that all morality traced its origins to social realities. He believed there could be no greater confusion of… — Natsume Sōseki Copy Share Image
“Every day the same things came up; the work was never done, and the tedium of it began to weigh on me.… — Cullen Thomas Copy Share Image
Is virtue a thing remote? I wish to be virtuous, and lo! Virtue is at hand. — Confucius Copy Share Image
I consider myself a Hindu, Christian, Moslem, Jew, Buddhist and Confucian. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
If a state indicts good into their system and law then only good should come from it. Therefore if things are good… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
That's a mistake I think that a lot of Western observers make is to assume that Korean nationalism is hundreds if not… — Brian Reynolds Myers Copy Share Image
“Although the rule of law has been codified in the Chinese constitution, a Confucian DNA is pervasively rooted in traditional mindsets as… — Patrick Mendis Copy Share Image
Self-respect, the value of 'face,' is universal but is most pronounced in China, then in Japan where the Confucian ethic is most… — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
“The philosophic goal in China was a search for harmony and perfection, not the discovery of truth by reasoning. In China’s Confucian… — Patrick Mendis Copy Share Image
“We Vietnamese have two philosophies to sustain us. The Confucian tells us how to behave when fate grants us peace and order.… — Denis Johnson Copy Share Image
“To achieve the ultimate Confucian objective—a virtuous society—America has favored the rule of laws over Confucian-style virtues.” — Patrick Mendis Copy Share Image
“(T)he essential thing is to keep in mind all the strata that go to make up the book. Archaic wisdom from the… — Hellmut and Richard Wilhelm Understanding the I Ching Copy Share Image
“concerns itself with the linguistic, ethical, legal, and ritual conventions which provide the society with its system of communication. Confucianism, in other… — Alan Wilson Watts Copy Share Image
