What is sacred among one people may be ridiculous in another; and what is despised or rejected by one cultural group, may in a different environment become the cornerstone for a great edifice of strange grandeur and beauty. — Hu Shih Copy Share Image
The rise of the dramas in the thirteenth century, and the rise of the great novels in a later period, together with their frank glorification of love and the joys of life, may be called the Third Renaissance. — 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… — Hu Shih Copy Share Image
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
