Whenever you do something without asking yourself, "Why am I doing this?"-that is meaningless life... . The "why" of life makes it meaningful... . Only when an answer is given is one living life as a man. — Hu Shih Copy Share Image
On July 26, 1916, I announced to all my friends in America that from now on I resolved to write no more poems in… — Hu Shih Copy Share Image
It is only through contact and comparison that the relative value or worthlessness of the various cultural elements can be clearly and critically seen… — Hu Shih Copy Share Image
Life and human society are the chief concern of Confucianism and, through it, the chief concern of the Chinese people. — Hu Shih Copy Share Image
Only when we realize that there is no eternal, unchanging truth or absolute truth can we arouse in ourselves a sense of intellectual responsibility. — Hu Shih Copy Share Image
In the year 1915 a series of trivial incidents led some Chinese students in Cornell University to take up the question of reforming the… — Hu Shih Copy Share Image
The knowledge that mankind needs is not the way or principle which has an absolute existence, but the particular truths for here and now… — Hu Shih Copy Share Image
The most outstanding characteristic of Eastern civilization is to know contentment, whereas that of Western civilization is not to know contentment. Contented Easterners are satisfied with their simple life and therefore do not seek to increase their material enjoyment... They are satisfied with their present lot and environment and therefore do not want to conquer nature but merely be at… — Hu Shih Copy Share
After learning the language and culture of the Chinese people, these Jesuits began to establish contacts with the young intellectuals of the country. — Hu Shih Copy Share Image
Practically all the prominent leaders of thought in China today are openly agnostics and even atheists. — Hu Shih Copy Share Image
But I wish to point out that it is entirely wrong to say that the Chinese are not religious. — Hu Shih Copy Share Image
In such diffused changes of culture two factors are necessary: contact and understanding. — Hu Shih Copy Share Image
