China Quote by Patrick Mendis

“The Taoist and Zen conception of perfection... the dynamic nature of their philosophy laid more stress upon the process through which perfection was sought…

— Okakura Kakuzo

There is a growing interest in Confucianism in China and other parts of the world. More and more followers of Confucianism are advocating a…

— Confucius

“At a more serious level, the desirability of aligning our actions with the more powerful laws of nature, society, and psychology, in order to…

— Clayton M. Christensen

“A turbulent history has taught Chinese leaders that not every problem has a solution and that too great an emphasis on total mastery over…

— Henry Kissinger

“According to a Confucian view, there are four steps in social develpment, wrote Wilhem (Sr.). There are the individual, the family, the state, and…

— Hellmut Wilhelm

“For ardent believers in Chinese exceptionalism, the Confucian tradition of political stability and centralized state power is the critical factor in the realization of…

— Patrick Mendis

But Chinese civilization has the overpowering beauty of the wholly other, and only the wholly other can inspire the deepest love and the profoundest…

— Joseph Needham

Perfectionism attaches to what is valued in the culture.

— Gloria Steinem

“after seeing decades of Maoist campaigns, that idealism mostly resulted in misery. China would be helped only as ordinary citizens went about bettering their…

— Gordon G. Chang

The perfection of wisdom, and the end of true philosophy is to proportion our wants to our possessions, our ambitions to our capacities, we…

— Mark Twain

True perfection seems imperfect, yet it is perfectly itself. True fullness seems empty, yet it is fully present. True straightness seems crooked. True wisdom…

— Laozi

“Since the 1990s, the ruling class of China has endeavoured to produce an ideological fantasy through the machinery of propaganda development (increase in GDP)…

— Chen Qiufan