Asking Yourself Why Quotes by Hu Shih

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Hu Shih has 29 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• The underlying sickness of human life is an unwillingness to look with open eyes at the condition of the world.
• In the year 1915 a series of trivial incidents led some Chinese students in Cornell University to take up the question of…
• The Jesuits had learned that a Christian mission to China could never succeed if it were not in a position to show…
• It is true that the Chinese are not so religious as the Hindus, or even as the Japanese; and they are certainly…
• Confucius was a humanist and an agnostic.
• And lastly, the political revolutions from 1911 to the present time have done more to bring about tremendous social changes everywhere than…
• Only when we realize that there is no eternal, unchanging truth or absolute truth can we arouse in ourselves a sense of…
• No student of Chinese history can say that the Chinese are incapable of religious experience, even when judged by the standards of…
• What is sacred among one people may be ridiculous in another; and what is despised or rejected by one cultural group, may…
• Another important historical factor is the fact that this already very simple religion was further simplified and purified by the early philosophers…
• Whenever you do something without asking yourself, "Why am I doing this?"-that is meaningless life... . The "why" of life makes it…
• The knowledge that mankind needs is not the way or principle which has an absolute existence, but the particular truths for here…

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