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Confucius: (K'ung Ch'iu, K'ung Chung-ni, K'ung Fu-tzu or Grand Master K'ung, 557-479 B.C.) Was born of a poor and common family in the state of Lu (in present Shangtung), a descendant of the people of Sung. His father died soon after his birth. When he grew up, he was put in charge of a granary, then cattle and sheep, and then public works in his native state. Later he became Grand Secretary of Justice and then Chief Minister. He regained some territory lost to a neighboring state purely by his moral force, executed a minister who created disorder, and brought peace to the land to the extent that things lost on the highways were not stolen.
Confucius spoke of the dragon as one who “feeds in the pure water of Wisdom and sports in the clear waters of Life”; while the Twan-ying-tu says of the yellow dragon, “His wisdom and virtue are unfathomable . . . he does not go in company and does not live in herds (he is an ascetic). He wanders in the wilds beyond the heavens. He goes and comes, fulfilling the decree (Karma); at the proper seasons if there is perfection he comes forth, if not he remains (invisible)” (SD 2:365).
Confucius taught that "it is man that can make truth great, and not truth that can make man great." Consequently he emphasized moral perfection, true manhood (jen), moral order (li) the Golden Mean (Chung Yung) and the superior man (chun tzu). To this end, knowledge must be directed, names must be rectified (cheng ming), and social relationships harmonized (wu lun). The whole program involved the investigation of things, the extension of knowledge, sincerity of the will, rectification of the heart, cultivation of the personal life, regulation of family life, national order, and finally, world peace. Mencius (371-289 B.C.) carried this further, holding that we not only should be good, but must be good, as human nature is originally good. True manhood (jen) and righteousness (i) are considered man's mind and path, respectively. Government must be established on the basis of benevolence (jen cheng) as against profit and force. Hsun Tzu (c 335-c 288 B.C.) believing human nature to be evil, stressed moral accumulation and education, especially through the rectification of names, music, and the rule of propriety (li). In the book of Chung Yung (Central Harmony, the Golden Mean, third or fourth century B.C.), the doctrine of central harmony is set forth. Our central self or moral being is conceived to be the great basis of existence and harmony or moral order is the universal law in the world. From then on, the relationship between man and the universe became one of direct correspondence. The idea of macrocosmos-rnicrocosmos relationship largely characterized the Confucianism of medieval China. The most glorious development of Confucianism is found in Neo-Confucianism, from the eleventh century to this day. For a summary of medieval Confucianism and Neo-Confucianism, see Chinese philosophy. -- W.T.C.
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Confucius, China: “Do unto another what you would have him do unto you, and do not unto another what you would not have him do unto you.”
Confucius: (K'ung Ch'iu, K'ung Chung-ni, K'ung Fu-tzu or Grand Master K'ung, 557-479 B.C.) Was born of a poor and common family in the state of Lu (in present Shangtung), a descendant of the people of Sung. His father died soon after his birth. When he grew up, he was put in charge of a granary, then cattle and sheep, and then public works in his native state. Later he became Grand Secretary of Justice and then Chief Minister. He regained some territory lost to a neighboring state purely by his moral force, executed a minister who created disorder, and brought peace to the land to the extent that things lost on the highways were not stolen.
Confucius spoke of the dragon as one who “feeds in the pure water of Wisdom and sports in the clear waters of Life”; while the Twan-ying-tu says of the yellow dragon, “His wisdom and virtue are unfathomable . . . he does not go in company and does not live in herds (he is an ascetic). He wanders in the wilds beyond the heavens. He goes and comes, fulfilling the decree (Karma); at the proper seasons if there is perfection he comes forth, if not he remains (invisible)” (SD 2:365).
Confucius taught that "it is man that can make truth great, and not truth that can make man great." Consequently he emphasized moral perfection, true manhood (jen), moral order (li) the Golden Mean (Chung Yung) and the superior man (chun tzu). To this end, knowledge must be directed, names must be rectified (cheng ming), and social relationships harmonized (wu lun). The whole program involved the investigation of things, the extension of knowledge, sincerity of the will, rectification of the heart, cultivation of the personal life, regulation of family life, national order, and finally, world peace. Mencius (371-289 B.C.) carried this further, holding that we not only should be good, but must be good, as human nature is originally good. True manhood (jen) and righteousness (i) are considered man's mind and path, respectively. Government must be established on the basis of benevolence (jen cheng) as against profit and force. Hsun Tzu (c 335-c 288 B.C.) believing human nature to be evil, stressed moral accumulation and education, especially through the rectification of names, music, and the rule of propriety (li). In the book of Chung Yung (Central Harmony, the Golden Mean, third or fourth century B.C.), the doctrine of central harmony is set forth. Our central self or moral being is conceived to be the great basis of existence and harmony or moral order is the universal law in the world. From then on, the relationship between man and the universe became one of direct correspondence. The idea of macrocosmos-rnicrocosmos relationship largely characterized the Confucianism of medieval China. The most glorious development of Confucianism is found in Neo-Confucianism, from the eleventh century to this day. For a summary of medieval Confucianism and Neo-Confucianism, see Chinese philosophy. -- W.T.C.
(b) Religion, especially used in tsung chiao. K'ung Chiao (Confucianism) and Tao Chiao (Taoism) may either mean (a) the ethical, political, and philosophical teachings of Confucius and Lao Tzu respectively and their followers, or (b) the state cult of the worship of Heaven and ancestors and the folk religion of nature and spirit worship, respectively. -- W.T.C.
Caodaism: An esoteric religion and mystery cult founded in Indo-China in the 1920’s, claiming to have received its teaching from the Supreme Being (Cao Dai) through spiritualistic implements. It honors Christ, Buddha, Confucius and Lao-Tzu as saviors sent by the same deity. It teaches the existence of the soul, reincarnation and the law of Karma.
(c) Confucius.
Cheng ming: The doctrine of the "rectification of names" which holds that names should correspond to realities, and serve as standards for social organization and personal conduct. The actual must in each case be made to correspond to the name. (Confucius; Hsun Tzu, c. 335-c. 288 B.C.) -- H.H.
China. The traditional basic concepts of Chinese metaphysics are ideal. Heaven (T'ien), the spiritual and moral power of cosmic and social order, that distributes to each thing and person its alloted sphere of action, is theistically and personalistically conceived in the Shu Ching (Book of History) and the Shih Ching (Book of Poetry). It was probably also interpreted thus by Confucius and Mencius, assuredly so by Motze. Later it became identified with Fate or impersonal, immaterial cosmic power. Shang Ti (Lord on High) has remained through Chinese history a theistic concept. Tao, as cosmic principle, is an impersonal, immaterial World Ground. Mahayana Buddhism introduced into China an idealistic influence. Pure metaphysical idealism was taught by the Buddhist monk Hsuan Ch'uang. Important Buddhist and Taoist influences appear in Sung Confucianism (Ju Chia). a distinctly idealistic movement. Chou Tun I taught that matter, life and mind emerge from Wu Chi (Pure Being). Shao Yung espoused an essential objective idealism: the world is the content of an Universal Consciousness. The Brothers Ch'eng Hsao and Ch'eng I, together with Chu Hsi, distinguished two primordial principles, an active, moral, aesthetic, and rational Law (Li), and a passive ether stuff (Ch'i). Their emphasis upon Li is idealistic. Lu Chiu Yuan (Lu Hsiang Shan), their opponent, is interpreted both as a subjective idealist and as a realist with a stiong idealistic emphasis. Similarly interpreted is Wang Yang Ming of the Ming Dynasty, who stressed the splritual and moral principle (Li) behind nature and man.
Chung: The Mean. See Chung yung. (Confucius.) The central self or moral being, in which "the passions such as joy, anger, grief, and pleasure have not awakened," and which exists "in a state of absolute tranquillity without being moved." See ho. (Early Confucianism; Neo-Confucianism.) The central or the proper principle; the Moral Law (tao); the "ultimate principle" of the universe; "the great basis of existence"; "the beginning and the end of the universe." The principle of centrality, which is observable in everything, that everything should have the proper balance of activity and tranquillity. (Tung Chung-shu, 177-104 B.C., Ch'eng Ming-tao, 1032-1086.) Impartiality; the principle of neutrality which is present in every human heart. The inner life; the inner principle. (Lao Tzu.)
Chun tu: The superior man, the perfect man, the moral man, the noble man. "There may have been a superior man who is not a true man (jen), but there has never been an inferior man (hsiao jen) who is a true man." The superior man "makes upward progress," "understands profit," and "despises the ordinances of Heaven, great men, and the words of the sages." (Confucius.) "The superior man's moral order is on the increase, while the inferior man's moral order is on the decrease." "The superior man abides by what is internal, whereas the inferior man abides by what is external." (Ancient Confucianism ) "The superior man makes advance in the moral law, whereas the inferior man makes advance in profit." "The superior man enjoys in the fulfillment of the moral law, whereas the inferior man enjoys in the fulfillment of his desires." (Medieval Confucianism.) The superior man "sees what is great and far" and is interested in "helping things to perfection," whereas the inferior man "sees what is small and near" and is interested in destroying things." (Neo-Confucianism.) A ruler. Husband (as in the Odes).
confucian ::: a. --> Of, or relating to, Confucius, the great Chinese philosopher and teacher. ::: n. --> A Confucianist.
Confucianism ::: An East Asian ethical and philosophical system originally developed from the teachings of the early Chinese sage Confucius. It is a complex system of moral, social, political, and religious thought that has had tremendous influence on the history of Chinese civilization down to the 21st century. Some have considered it to have been the "state religion" of imperial China.
Confucianism (ju chia), on the other hand, advocated true manhood (jen) as the highest good, the superior man (chun tzu) as the ideal being, and cultivation of life (hsiu shen) as the supreme duty of man. It was toward this moralism and humanism that Confucius (551-479 B.C.) taught the doctrines of "chung," or being true to the principles of one's nature, and "shu," or the application of those principles in relation to others, as well as the doctrine of the Golden Mean (chung yung), i.e., "to find the central clue of our moral being and to be harmonious with the universe." Humanism was further strengthened by Mencius (371-289 B.C.) who insisted that man must develop his nature fully because benevolence (jen) and righteousness (i) are natural to his nature which is originally good, and again reinforced by Hsun Tzu (c. 335-286 BC) who, contending that human nature is evil, advocated the control of nature. Amid this antagonism between naturalism and humanism, however, both schools conceived reality as unceasing change (i) and incessant transformation, perpetually in progress due to the interaction of the active (yang) and passive (yin) cosmic principles.
confucianism ::: n. --> The political morality taught by Confucius and his disciples, which forms the basis of the Chinese jurisprudence and education. It can hardly be called a religion, as it does not inculcate the worship of any god.
Confucianism: Worship of Confucius, a state cult of China. See: Ju Chia and Ju Chiao.
confucianist ::: n. --> A follower of Confucius; a Confucian.
Heliocentric The heliocentric system was universally known in antiquity as a part of the teaching of the Mysteries, and certain eminent sages of those archaic times even taught it more or less openly, among them Confucius in China, Greek philosophers, Egyptian priests, and Hindu astronomical and other writers. Pythagoras veiled the heliocentric theory under the teaching that the planets (and the sun) revolved around a mysterious central fire, invisible to us, but whose light was reflected to the earth by the sun.
Himitsu mandara jujushinron. (秘密曼荼羅十住心論). In Japanese, "Ten Abiding States of Mind According to the Sacred MAndALA"; a treatise composed by the Japanese SHINGONSHumonk KuKAI; often referred to more briefly as the Jujushinron. In 830, Kukai submitted this treatise in reply to Emperor Junna's (r. 823-833) request to each Buddhist tradition in Japan to provide an explanation of its teachings. In his treatise, Kukai systematically classified the various Buddhist teachings (see JIAOXIANG PANSHI) and placed them onto a spiritual map consisting of the ten stages of the mind (jujushin). The first and lowest stage of the mind ("the deluded, ram-like mind") is that of ignorant beings who, like animals, are driven by their uncontrolled desires for food and sex. The beings of the second stage ("the ignorant, childlike, but tempered mind") display ethical behavior consistent with the teachings of Confucius and the lay precepts of Buddhism. The third stage of mind ("the infantlike, fearless mind") is the state in which one worships the various gods and seeks rebirth in the various heavens, as would be the case in the non-Buddhist traditions of India and in Daoism. The fourth stage ("recognizing only SKANDHAs and no-self") corresponds to the sRĀVAKAYĀNA and the fifth stage ("mind free of karmic seeds") to that of the PRATYEKABUDDHAYĀNA. The sixth stage ("the mind of MAHĀYĀNA, which is concerned with others") corresponds to the YOGĀCĀRA teachings, the seventh ("mind awakened to its unborn nature") to MADHYAMAKA, the eighth ("mind of one path devoid of construction") to TIANTAI (J. TENDAI), and the ninth ("mind completely devoid of self-nature") to HUAYAN (J. Kegon). Kukai placed his own tradition of Shingon at the last and highest stage of mind ("the esoteric and adorned mind"). Kukai also likened each stage of mind to a palace and contended that these outer palaces surround an inner palace ruled by the buddha MAHĀVAIROCANA. To abide in the inner palace one must be initiated into the teachings of Shingon by receiving consecration (ABHIsEKA). Kukai thus provided a Buddhist (or Shingon) alternative to ideal rulership. To demonstrate his schema of the mind, Kukai frequently cites numerous scriptures and commentaries, which made his treatise extremely prolix; Kukai later provided an abbreviated version of his argument, without the numerous supporting references, in his HIZo HoYAKU.
I kuan: The "one thread" or central principle that runs through the teachings of Confucius. See Chung yung. This is interpreted as The Confucian doctrine of being true to the principles of one's nature (chung) and the benevolent exercise of them in relation to others (shu), by Confucius' pupil, Tseng Tzu. The central principle of centrality and harmony (chung yung) by which all human affairs and natural phenomena may be understood. (Earlv Confucianism.) "Man and things forming one organic unity," there being no discrimination between the self and the non-self. (Ch'eng I-ch'uan, 1033-1107.) Sincerity (ch'eng), which is the way of Heaven, indestructible, by which all things are in their proper places. Sincerity is the thread that runs through all affairs and things, and being true to the principles of one's nature and the benevolent exercise of them in relation to others is the way to try to be sincere. (Chu Hsi, 1130-1200.) The "one" is the Great Ultimate in general and the "thread" is the Great Ultimate in each thing. (Chu Hsi.)
Jen: Man. Goodness; virtue in general; the moral principle; the moral ideal of the superior man (chun. tzu); the fundamental as well as the sum total of virtues, just as the Prime (yuan) is the origin and the vital force of all things --jen consisting of "man" and "two" and yuan consisting of "two" and "man". (Confucianism.) True manhood; man's character; human-heartedness; moral character; being man-like; "that by which a man is to be a man;" "realization of one's true self and the restoration of the moral order." (Confucius and Mencius.) "The active (yang) and passive (yin) principles are the way of Heaven; the principles of strength and weakness are the way of Earth; and true manhood and righteousness (i) are the way of Man." "True manhood is man's mind and righteousness is man's path." It is one of the three Universally Recognized Moral Qualities of man (ta te), the four Fundamentals of the Moral Life (ssu tuan), and the five Constant Virtues (wu ch'ang). True manhood and righteousness are the basic principles of Confucian ethics and politics. (Confucianism.) The golden rule; "Being true to the principles of one's nature (chung) and the benevolent exercise of them in relation to others (shu)." "The true man, having established his own character, seeks to establish the character of others; and having succeeded, seeks to make others succeed." (Confucius.) Love; benevolence; kindness; charity; compassion; "the character of the heart and the principle of love;" "love towards all men and benefit towards things." (Confucianism.) "Universal love without the element of self," (Chuang Tzu, between 399 and 295 B.C.) "Universal Love." (Han Yu, 767-824.) The moral principle with regard to others. "True manhood is the cardinal virtue by which others are pacified, whereas righteousness is the cardinal principle by which the self is rectified." It means "to love others and not the self." (Tung Chung-shu, 177-104 B.C.) Love of all men and things and impartiality and justice towards all men and things, this virtue being the cardinal virtue not only of man but also of the universe. "Love means to devote oneself to the benefit of other people and things." "Love implies justice, that is, as a man, treating others as men." "The true man regards the universe and all things as a unity. They are all essential to himself. As he realizes the true self, there is no limit to his love." (Ch'eng Ming-tao, 1032-1068.) "Love is the source of all laws, the foundation of all phenomena." "What is received from Heaven at the beginning is simply love, and is therefore the complete substance of the mind." "Love is the love of creating in the mind of Heaven and Earth, and men and other creatures receive it as their mind." (Chu Hsi, 1130-1200.)
Ju: Confucianists. Scholars who were versed in the six arts, namely, the rules of propriety, music, archery, charioteering, writing, and mathematics. Priest-teachers in the Chou period (1122-249 B.C.) who clung to the dying culture of Shang (1765-1122 B.C.), observed Shang rules of conduct, became specialists on social decorum and religious rites. --W.T.C. Ju chia: The Confucian School, which "delighted in the study of the six Classics and paid attention to matters concerning benevolence and righteousness. They regarded Yao and Shun (mythological emperors) as founders whose example is to be followed, King Wen (1184-1135 B.C.?) and King Wu (1121-1116 B.C.?) as illustrious examples, and honored Confucius (551-479 B.C.) as the exalted teacher to give authority to their teaching." "As to the forms of proper conduct which they set up for prince and minister, for father and son, or the distinctions they make between husband and wife and between old and young, in these not even the opposition of all other philosophers can make any change."
Language of Science: See Scientific Empiricism II B 1. Lao Tzu: Whether the founder of Taoism (tao chia) was the same as Li Erh and Li An, whether he lived before or after Confucius, and whether the Tao Te Ching (Eng. trans.: The Canon of Reason and Virtue by P. Carus, The Way and Its Power by A. Waley, etc.) contains his teachings are controversial. According to the Shih Chi (Historical Records), he was a native of Chu (in present Honan), land of romanticism in the south, and a custodian of documents whom Confucius went to consult on rituals. Thus he might have been a priest-teacher who, by advocating the doctrine of "inaction", attempted to preserve the declining culture of his people, the suppressed people of Yin, while Confucius worked hard to promote the culture of the ruling people of Chou. -- W.T.C.
Lao-Tse or Lao-tzu (Chinese) One of the great teachers of China who appeared and taught some little time before Confucius began his career. Tradition has it that there was a meeting between Confucius and Lao-Tzu, and that the former referred to the latter as a dragon, an ancient mode of referring to a master of wisdom or initiate.
Li: Propriety; code of proper conduct; rules of social contact; good manners; etiquett; mores; rituals; rites; ceremonials. In Confucius, it aims at true manhood (jen) through self-mastery, and central harmony (ho). "Propriety regulates and refines human feelings, giving them due allowance, so as to keep the people within bounds." It is "to determine human relationships, to settle suspicions and doubts, to distinguish similarity and difference, and to ascertain right and wrong." "The rules of propriety are rooted in Heaven, have their correspondences in Earth, and are applicable to spiritual beings." "Music unites, while rituals differentiate. . . . Music comes from the inside, while rituals come from the outside. Because music comes from the inside, it is characterized by quiet and calm. And because rituals come from the outside, they are characterized by formalism. . . . Truly great music shares the principles of harmony with the universe, and truly great ritualism shares the principles of distinction with the universe. Through the principles of harmony, order is restored in the physical world, and through the principles of distinction, we are enabled to offer sacrifices to Heaven and Earth. . . . Music expresses the harmony of the universe, while rituals express the order of the universe. Through harmony all things are influenced, and through order all things have a proper place. Music rises from Heaven, while rituals are patterned on Earth. . . ." (Early Confucianism.) "The code of propriety has three sources: Heaven and Earth gave birth to it -- this is a source; our ancestors made it fit the situation -- this is a source; the princes and teachers formed it -- this is a source." (Hsun Tzu, c 335-c 238 B.C.) -- W.T.C.
Mean: In general, that which in some way mediates or occupies a middle position among various things or between two extremes. Hence (especially in the plural) that through which an end is attained; in mathematics the word is used for any one of various notions of average; in ethics it represents moderation, temperance, prudence, the middle way. In mathematics: The arithmetic mean of two quantities is half their sum; the arithmetic mean of n quantities is the sum of the n quantities, divided by n. In the case of a function f(x) (say from real numbers to real numbers) the mean value of the function for the values x1, x2, . . . , xn of x is the arithmetic mean of f(x1), f(x2), . . . , f(xn). This notion is extended to the case of infinite sets of values of x by means of integration; thus the mean value of f(x) for values of x between a and b is ∫f(x)dx, with a and b as the limits of integration, divided by the difference between a and b. The geometric mean of or between, or the mean proportional between, two quantities is the (positive) square root of their product. Thus if b is the geometric mean between a and c, c is as many times greater (or less) than b as b is than a. The geometric mean of n quantities is the nth root of their product. The harmonic mean of two quantities is defined as the reciprocal of the arithmetic mean of their reciprocals. Hence the harmonic mean of a and b is 2ab/(a + b). The weighted mean or weighted average of a set of n quantities, each of which is associated with a certain number as weight, is obtained by multiplying each quantity by the associated weight, adding these products together, and then dividing by the sum of the weights. As under A, this may be extended to the case of an infinite set of quantities by means of integration. (The weights have the role of estimates of relative importance of the various quantities, and if all the weights are equal the weighted mean reduces to the simple arithmetic mean.) In statistics, given a population (i.e., an aggregate of observed or observable quantities) and a variable x having the population as its range, we have: The mean value of x is the weighted mean of the values of x, with the probability (frequency ratio) of each value taken as its weight. In the case of a finite population this is the same as the simple arithmetic mean of the population, provided that, in calculating the arithmetic mean, each value of x is counted as many times over as it occurs in the set of observations constituting the population. In like manner, the mean value of a function f(x) of x is the weighted mean of the values of f(x), where the probability of each value of x is taken as the weight of the corresponding value of f(x). The mode of the population is the most probable (most frequent) value of x, provided there is one such. The median of the population is so chosen that the probability that x be less than the median (or the probability that x be greater than the median) is ½ (or as near ½ as possible). In the case of a finite population, if the values of x are arranged in order of magnitude --repeating any one value of x as many times over as it occurs in the set of observations constituting the population --then the middle term of this series, or the arithmetic mean of the two middle terms, is the median. --A.C. In cosmology, the fundamental means (arithmetic, geometric, and harmonic) were used by the Greeks in describing or actualizing the process of becoming in nature. The Pythagoreans and the Platonists in particular made considerable use of these means (see the Philebus and the Timaeus more especially). These ratios are among the basic elements used by Plato in his doctrine of the mixtures. With the appearance of the qualitative physics of Aristotle, the means lost their cosmological importance and were thereafter used chiefly in mathematics. The modern mathematical theories of the universe make use of the whole range of means analyzed by the calculus of probability, the theory of errors, the calculus of variations, and the statistical methods. In ethics, the 'Doctrine of the Mean' is the moral theory of moderation, the development of the virtues, the determination of the wise course in action, the practice of temperance and prudence, the choice of the middle way between extreme or conflicting decisions. It has been developed principally by the Chinese, the Indians and the Greeks; it was used with caution by the Christian moralists on account of their rigorous application of the moral law. In Chinese philosophy, the Doctrine of the Mean or of the Middle Way (the Chung Yung, literally 'Equilibrium and Harmony') involves the absence of immoderate pleasure, anger, sorrow or joy, and a conscious state in which those feelings have been stirred and act in their proper degree. This doctrine has been developed by Tzu Shu (V. C. B.C.), a grandson of Confucius who had already described the virtues of the 'superior man' according to his aphorism "Perfect is the virtue which is according to the mean". In matters of action, the superior man stands erect in the middle and strives to follow a course which does not incline on either side. In Buddhist philosophy, the System of the Middle Way or Madhyamaka is ascribed more particularly to Nagarjuna (II c. A.D.). The Buddha had given his revelation as a mean or middle way, because he repudiated the two extremes of an exaggerated ascetlsm and of an easy secular life. This principle is also applied to knowledge and action in general, with the purpose of striking a happy medium between contradictory judgments and motives. The final objective is the realization of the nirvana or the complete absence of desire by the gradual destruction of feelings and thoughts. But while orthodox Buddhism teaches the unreality of the individual (who is merely a mass of causes and effects following one another in unbroken succession), the Madhyamaka denies also the existence of these causes and effects in themselves. For this system, "Everything is void", with the legitimate conclusion that "Absolute truth is silence". Thus the perfect mean is realized. In Greek Ethics, the doctrine of the Right (Mean has been developed by Plato (Philebus) and Aristotle (Nic. Ethics II. 6-8) principally, on the Pythagorean analogy between the sound mind, the healthy body and the tuned string, which has inspired most of the Greek Moralists. Though it is known as the "Aristotelian Principle of the Mean", it is essentially a Platonic doctrine which is preformed in the Republic and the Statesman and expounded in the Philebus, where we are told that all good things in life belong to the class of the mixed (26 D). This doctrine states that in the application of intelligence to any kind of activity, the supreme wisdom is to know just where to stop, and to stop just there and nowhere else. Hence, the "right-mean" does not concern the quantitative measurement of magnitudes, but simply the qualitative comparison of values with respect to a standard which is the appropriate (prepon), the seasonable (kairos), the morally necessary (deon), or generally the moderate (metrion). The difference between these two kinds of metretics (metretike) is that the former is extrinsic and relative, while the latter is intrinsic and absolute. This explains the Platonic division of the sciences into two classes: those involving reference to relative quantities (mathematical or natural), and those requiring absolute values (ethics and aesthetics). The Aristotelian analysis of the "right mean" considers moral goodness as a fixed and habitual proportion in our appetitions and tempers, which can be reached by training them until they exhibit just the balance required by the right rule. This process of becoming good develops certain habits of virtues consisting in reasonable moderation where both excess and defect are avoided: the virtue of temperance (sophrosyne) is a typical example. In this sense, virtue occupies a middle position between extremes, and is said to be a mean; but it is not a static notion, as it leads to the development of a stable being, when man learns not to over-reach himself. This qualitative conception of the mean involves an adaptation of the agent, his conduct and his environment, similar to the harmony displayed in a work of art. Hence the aesthetic aspect of virtue, which is often overstressed by ancient and neo-pagan writers, at the expense of morality proper. The ethical idea of the mean, stripped of the qualifications added to it by its Christian interpreters, has influenced many positivistic systems of ethics, and especially pragmatism and behaviourism (e.g., A. Huxley's rule of Balanced Excesses). It is maintained that it is also involved in the dialectical systems, such as Hegelianism, where it would have an application in the whole dialectical process as such: thus, it would correspond to the synthetic phase which blends together the thesis and the antithesis by the meeting of the opposites. --T.G. Mean, Doctrine of the: In Aristotle's ethics, the doctrine that each of the moral virtues is an intermediate state between extremes of excess and defect. -- O.R.M.
Mencius: (Meng Tzu, Meng K'o, 371-289 B.C.) A native of Tsao (in present Shantung), studied under pupils of Tzu Ssu, grandson of Confucius, became the greatest Confucian in Chinese history. He vigorously attacked the "pervasive teachings" of Yang Chu and Mo Tzu. Like Confucius, he travelled for many years, to many states, trying to persuade kings and princes to practice benevolent government instead of government by force, but failed. He retired to teach and write. (Meng Tzu, Eng. tr. by James Legge: i.) -- W.T.C.
Ming: Fate; Destiny; the Decree of Heaven. The Confucians and Neo-Confucians are unanimous in saying that the fate and the nature (hsing) of man and things are two aspects of the same thing. Fate is what Heaven imparts; and the nature is what man and things received from Heaven. For example, "whether a piece of wood is crooked or straight is due to its nature. But that it should be crooked or straight is due to its fate." This being the case, understanding fate (as in Confucius), establishing fate (as in Mencius, 371-289 B.C.), and the fulfillment of fate (as in Neo-Confucianism) all mean the realization of the nature of man and things in accordance with the principle or Reason (li) of existence. "That which Heaven decrees is true, one, and homogeneous . . . Fate in its true meaning proceeds from Reason; its variations (i.e., inequalities like intelligence and stupidity) proceed from the material element, the vital force (ch'i) . . . 'He who understands what fate is, will not stand beneath a precipitous wall.' If a man, saying 'It is decreed,' goes and stands beneath a precipitous wall and the wall falls and crushes him, it cannot be attributed solely to fate. In human affairs when a man has done his utmost he may talk of fate." The fate of Heaven is the same as the Moral Law (tao) of Heaven. The "fulfillment of fate" consists of "the investigation of the Reason of things to the utmost (ch'iung li)" and "exhausting one's nature to the utmost (chin hsing)" -- the three are one and the same." In short, fate is "nothing other than being one's true self (ch'eng)." -- W.T.C.
Mouzi lihuo lun. (J. Boshi riwakuron; K. Moja ihok non 牟子理惑論). In Chinese, "Treatise on the Resolution of Doubts," or "Treatise on the Disposition of Error"; the earliest extant Buddhist treatise written by a Chinese convert; often known by its abbreviated eponymous title, the Mouzi. The text is attributed to a Chinese Buddhist layman, MOUZI, who is claimed to have hailed from the south of China. The text is a polemical Buddhist defense of the faith, which responds to criticisms of Buddhism by rival religions in China. The text consists of a eulogistic preface, thirty-eight short dialogues between Mouzi and unnamed critic(s) of Buddhism, and a brief conclusion, in which the antagonist finally acquiesces to the rectitude of Buddhist positions. Stylistically, the work is written in Confucian commentarial form, thus making more palatable its putatively subversive idea, viz., that adherence to Buddhism is completely compatible with being a righteous and filial Chinese. Typically, criticisms deriving from Confucian beliefs are refuted using references from the Laozi and Zhuangzi, while Daoist criticisms are refuted with astute readings of both Daoist and Confucian texts. The Mouzi was thus successful not simply because it refuted the critiques of rival religions; in addition, by demonstrating the inherent inaccuracy and speciousness of their positions, the treatise was also able to prove the veracity, if not the superiority, of Buddhism itself. In one of the dialogues that argues that filiality is found not only in Confucianism but in Buddhism as well, the Mouzi compares the Buddhist monk to a son who saves his father from drowning by grabbing him and lifting him upside down back into the boat. Although the inelegant manner in which the son grabbed his father may initially seem disrespectful, since it saves his parent from drowning, the act would be acceptable even according to Confucius himself, who insisted that exigent circumstances justified adaptable demonstrations of filial piety. Similarly, the behavior of a Buddhist monk who leaves the home life may in fact be filial, even though initially it may not appear to be so. In another section, the Mouzi substantiates the filiality of Buddhism by pointing out that, since the Buddha protected his parents sUDDHODANA and MĀYĀ by showing them the path to their salvation, practicing Buddhism was indeed filial. In another dialogue concerning criticisms of the Buddhist teaching of rebirth, the Mouzi compares the spirit that is reborn to the seeds of a plant, which can grow into new plants even after the leaves and roots (viz., the physical body) have died. The composition date of the Mouzi has proven to be an intractable problem. Its preface claims that the text was written in the second century CE, although current scholarly estimates of its date range from the second quarter of the third century through the fourth or even early fifth century. More likely, the text developed over time, with many accretions. The text was included in the (nonextant) Fa lun ("Collection on the Dharma"), compiled by Lu Cheng (425-494) around 465, which would be the terminus ad quem for its composition. The text that is extant today is the recension appearing in SENGYOU's (445-518) HONGMING JI ("Collection on the Propagation and Clarification [of Buddhism]"), the important anthology of Buddhist apologetics, compiled c. 515-518. Although some earlier scholars have questioned the authenticity of the text, it is now generally accepted to be in fact one of the earliest extant sources from the incipiency of indigenous Chinese Buddhism.
Nei sheng: A Chinese term used in referring to the man who attained to complete self-cultivation, sagehood. (Confucius.)
Nei sheng: Often used as referring to the man who attained to complete self-cultivation, sage-hood. (Confucius.) -- H.H.
Shu-king (Chinese) Also Shoo King, Shu Ching. Popularly known as the Canon, or Book of History; one of the Four Shu Books compiled by Confucius from documents which were ancient in his day. Blavatsky refers to this work as “China’s primitive Bible” compiled from the Book of Dzyan (SD 1:xliii), remarking that it is full of reminiscences about the fourth root-race and the giants of bygone times (SD 2:280-1).
Ssu chiao: The four things which Confucius taught his pupils, namely, letters, personal conduct, being one's true self (chung), and good faith in social relationship (hsin). -- W.T.C.
T'ai yang: The Major Mode of Activity See T'ai Chi. T'ai yin: The Major Mode of Passivity. See T'ai Chi. Tai Tung-yuan: (Tai Chen, Tai Shen-hsiu, 1723-1777) carne from a poor family, self-made to be a leader in outstanding intellectual activities of the time, and became an authority in philology, mathematics, geography as well as philosophy. By reinteipreting the teachings of Mencius, he attempted to rediscover the original meanings of Confucius and Mencius. His Tai-shih I-shu (works) consists of 31 chuans in several volumes. -- W.T.C.
Tortoise In China, a favorite symbol, and Confucius regarded it as sacred; in India the same veneration is given to it, for in one of the preceding manvantaras Vishnu is said in the Puranas to have taken the form of a tortoise to uphold the earth and its beings; his second avatara is called the Tortoise or Kurma avatara.
Well-ordered: See Ordinal number. Weltanschauung: (Ger.) The compound term means world-view, perspective of life, conception of things. Wen: (a) Culture evidences of the Confucian Moral Law (tao), such as propriety, music, social institutions, governmental systems, education, etc., the tradition of the Chou dynasty which Confucius attempted to preserve. (b) Appearance polish, superficiality. (c) Letters: literature, one of the four things Confucius taught (ssu chiao). -- W.T.C.
which, by altering the positions of the whole and broken lines form the changes in the diagrams. This has been assigned by scholars to Fu-Hsi (30th century BC). The first extant commentary on it is assigned to Ching Wen, founder of the Chou dynasty in 1122 BC, and his son. There have been many explanations offered regarding this work, called by many the Qabbalah of China: some see in it only a system of divination, a lunar calendar, phallic worship, or again the vocabulary of a tribe whose very existence had to be postulated for this purpose. Both Taoists and Confucianists regard the I Ching as the holiest of books; Confucius declared that he would like to give another 50 years of his life to its study, while the only Chinese commentator who is said to have understood it was Chu Hsi (1130-1200).
wuwei. (J. mui; K. muwi 無爲). In Chinese, lit., "nonaction," "effortless action," in later contexts "uncompounded"; a key term that appears in early Chinese classics such as the Lunyu ("Analects of Confucius"), the Daode jing ("The Way and Its Power"), and the Zhuangzi. "Nonaction" suggests action that takes place naturally or without artifice; thus variously interpreted as "effortless action," "unattached action," etc. Nonaction thus refers to the ideal mode of behavior for a sage, in which the sage "does nothing and yet there is nothing not done" (wuwei er wu buwei). Rather than acting by fiat, the sage acts by establishing a "sympathetic resonance" (GANYING) with the natural movements of heaven, which brings everything naturally to perfection, just as a tree grows naturally without making any effort to grow. The term is frequently used in indigenous Chinese texts in the context of good governance, where wuwei thus refers to the ultimate type of "soft power": by "practicing nonaction," a ruler creates an appropriate environment in which "the people are able to look after themselves" (Daode jing, chapter 49); he does not impose his point of view but instead allows common cause with his constituency to develop naturally. In certain Chinese contexts, wuwei could also connote something that was "unproduced," and the early Chinese Buddhists drew on this connotation to translate the seminal Sanskrit term NIRVĀnA and nirvāna's putative "inactivity"; this misleading translation was eventually abandoned in favor of the phonetic transcription niepan. The Buddhists did however retain the term wuwei in this denotation to translate the concept of "uncompounded" or "unconditioned" factors (ASAMSKṚTADHARMA), such as nirvāna and in some schools space (ĀKĀsA), which are not conditioned (SAMSKṚTA) and are thus not subject to the inevitable impermanence (ANITYA) to which all conditioned dharmas are subject.
xiangjiao. (J. zokyo; K. sanggyo 像教). In Chinese, "teaching [viz., religion] of images"; a pejorative term coined by Confucians to refer to Buddhism, derived from the emphasis in Buddhism on bowing before images during rituals and ceremonies. Confucianism, in turn, was called the "teaching [viz., religion] of names" (mingjiao), to demonstrate by contrast that it was based on intellectual inquiry and the "rectification of names" (zhengming) rather than on worship of images of Confucius and the teachers within the tradition.
Yu-Sok chirŭi non. (儒釋質疑論). In Korean, "Treatise on Queries and Doubts concerning Yu (C. Ru, viz., Confucius) and Sok (C. Shi, sĀKYAMUNI)"; a Buddhist "defense of the faith" against Neo-Confucian criticisms, written during the early Choson period. Although the authorship of this text remains a mystery, the style and content of the treatise resemble the HYoNJoNG NON by KIHWA (1376-1433), and it is clear that its Buddhist author was well versed in both Confucian and Daoist thought. The Yu-Sok chirŭi non is written in catechetic style and consists of nineteen questions and answers, which largely address misleading views that Confucian scholars hold regarding Buddhism. Following a syncretic approach that seeks to reconcile the teaching of Confucianism, Buddhism, and Daoism, this work generally argues that these three teachings each have their own distinctive roles to play in people's lives and need not be in conflict. Buddhism, Confucianism, and Daoism are explained as corresponding, respectively, to (1) nature (K. song, C. XING), mind (K. sim, C. XIN), and pneuma (K. ki, C. qi); (2) truth (K. chin, C. zhen), its traces (K. chok, C. ji), and the connection between them; and so on. The treatise claims that these three teachings are ultimately in accord with one another because of their identical basis in the mind. The text also treats such traditional aspects of Chinese thought as yin-yang cosmology and the five phases (K. ohaeng, C. wuxing) (viz., the five traditional Chinese elements), as well as astrological and cosmological issues.
Zimen jingxun. (J. Shimon kyokun/Shimon keikun; K. Ch'imun kyonghun 緇門警訓). In Chinese, "Admonitions for Those in the Dark-(Robed) School"; an important Buddhist primer, in nine rolls, compiled in 1313 by the CHAN monk YONGZHONG (d.u.) in the LINJI ZONG lineage of ZHONGFENG MINGBEN. Yongzhong's text is an expansion of an earlier one-roll primer entitled Zilin baoxun ("Precious Admonitions to the Forest of the Dark-[Robed]"), by the Song-dynasty monk Zexian (d.u.). In 1474, the monk Rujin (d.u.) of the monastery of Zhenrusi added some additional work of his own to Yongzhong's text and published the compilation as Zimen jingxun, in a total of ten rolls. The text contains 170 anecdotes, instructions, admonitions, and suggestions to neophytes, derived from eminent monks who lived between the Northern Song and the Ming dynasties. The author admonishes Chan students to observe the Buddhist precepts and to exert themselves in the study of Buddhism. Citing such Confucian classics as the Lunyu ("Analects of Confucius") and the Shijing ("Book of Poetry"), Yongzhong admonishes students to be diligent in their learning, even encouraging them to study Confucianism and Daoism in order better to promote Buddhism, just as ancient eminent masters had done. He provides several masters' detailed instructions on Chan meditation, including proper physical posture, and offers instructions on the proper way of reading Buddhist scriptures. Finally, Yongzhong includes the instructions of many renowned Chan masters, as conveyed in their sermons (SHANGTANG) and letters (SHUZHUANG). Rujin's edition of Yongzhong's work continues to be widely used today to instruct novices and neophytes. In Korea, Yongzhong's nine-roll version has been republished several times since T'AEGO POU (1301-1381) imported it to the peninsula during the Koryo period.
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50 Philosophy Classics: List of Books Covered:
1. Hannah Arendt - The Human Condition (1958)
2. Aristotle - Nicomachean Ethics (4th century BC)
3. AJ Ayer - Language
1 Ken Wilber
1 Howard Gardner
1 Confucius "Ta-hio" I
1 Confucius:Lun-yu
1 Confucius: Lia yu II XV. 20
1 Confucius?
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7 Henry David Thoreau
5 Karen Armstrong
4 Pearl S Buck
4 Ian McEwan
3 Sylvia Day
3 Nicholas Sparks
3 Kakuz Okakura
3 Evan Osnos
3 Dale Carnegie
2 Zhuangzi
2 Sun Tzu
2 Sherrilyn Kenyon
2 Salman Rushdie
2 Robin S Sharma
2 Robert Anton Wilson
2 Ray Bradbury
2 Marisha Pessl
2 Lin Yutang
2 Leo Tolstoy
1:Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.
~ Confucius?,#KEYS
2:It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop. ~ Confucius, #KEYS
3:Wherever you go, go with all your heart. ~ Confucius, #KEYS
4:If you chase two rabbits, you catch none." ~ Confucius, #KEYS
5:To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short." ~ Confucius, #KEYS
6:The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions. ~ Confucius, #KEYS
7:Roads were made for journeys not destinations." ~ Confucius, #KEYS
8:Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change." ~ Confucius, #KEYS
9:Have no vicious thoughts. ~ Confucius, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
10:To rank the effort above the prize may be called love. ~ Confucius, #KEYS
11:Gentlemen should not waste their time on trivial games - they should play go[3] ~ Confucius, #KEYS
12:A great man is hard on himself; a small man is hard on others." ~ Confucius, #KEYS
13:He who knows all the answers has not been asked all the questions. ~ Confucius, #KEYS
14:It does not matter how slowly you go, so long as you do not stop.
~ Confucius,#KEYS
15:There is only one thing in life that never changes, and it is change." ~ Confucius, #KEYS
16:Three things cannot long be hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth." ~ Confucius, #KEYS
17:Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace. ~ Confucius, #KEYS
18:The perfect man does not hunt after wealth. ~ Confucius, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
19:The superior man is distressed by his want of ability. ~ Confucius, Analects, 15:18, #KEYS
20:Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace." ~ Confucius, #KEYS
21:Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.
~ Confucius,#KEYS
22:Keep it simple, and focus on what matters. Don't let yourself be overwhelmed." ~ Confucius, #KEYS
23:The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trial.
~ Confucius,#KEYS
24:He governs his soul and expects nothing from others. ~ Confucius, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
25:The sage is happy everywhere, the whole earth is his. ~ Confucius, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
26:What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others." ~ Confucius, #KEYS
27:Constantly observe sincerity and fidelity and good faith. ~ Confucius, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
28:The noble-minded are calm and steady. Little people are forever fussing and fretting." ~ Confucius, #KEYS
29:What we would not have done to us, we must not do to others. ~ Confucius, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
30:Attack the evil that is within yourself, rather than attacking the evil that is in others." ~ Confucius, #KEYS
31:Put always in the first rank uprightness of heart and fidelity. ~ Confucius, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
32:hosoever is truly enlightened, cannot fail to arrive at perfection. ~ Confucius, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
33:A man is great not because he hasn't failed; a man is great because failure hasn't stopped him." ~ Confucius, #KEYS
34:The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large." ~ Confucius, #KEYS
35:The man who asks a question is a fool for a minute, the man who does not ask is a fool for life." ~ Confucius, #KEYS
36:Virtue shows itself in the lowest as well as in the sublimest things. ~ Confucius, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
37:What the superior man seeks is in himself. What the mean man seeks is in others. ~ Confucius, Analects, 15:20, #KEYS
38:What you do not wish to be done to yourselves, do not do to other men. ~ Confucius, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
39:It is easier today to triumph over evil habits than it will be tomorrow. ~ Confucius, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
40:Nowhere and in no situation is the sage dissatisfied with his condition. ~ Confucius, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
41:Question attentively, then meditate at leisure over what you have heard. ~ Confucius, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
42:When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps." ~ Confucius, #KEYS
43:When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.
~ Confucius,#KEYS
44:Let your words corres-pond with your actions and your actions with your words. ~ Confucius, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
45:The wheel of fortune turns incessantly round, and who can say within himself, I shall today be uppermost?
~ Confucius,#KEYS
46:If you want happiness for a year, inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime, help someone else." ~ Confucius, #KEYS
47:If in the morning you have heard the voice of celestial reason, in the evening you can die. ~ Confucius, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
48:Labour to purify thy thoughts. If thou hast no evil thoughts, thou shalt commit no evil deeds. ~ Confucius, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
49:Perfection is the end and the beginning of all things, and without perfection they could not be. ~ Confucius, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
50:Give a bowl of rice to a man and you will feed him for a day. Teach him how to grow his own rice and you will save his life." ~ Confucius, #KEYS
51:To do to men what we would have them do to ourselves is what one may call the teaching of humanity. ~ Confucius, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
52:Balance is the perfect state of still water. Let that be our model. It remains quiet within and is not disturbed on the surface." ~ Confucius, #KEYS
53:The sage's quest is for himself, the quest of the-ignorant for other than himself. ~ Confucius, "Lun-Yu," II 15.20, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
54:It is impossible to arrive at the summit of the mountain without passing through rough and difficult paths. ~ Confucius, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
55:Charity is the affection that impels us to sacrifice ourselves to humankind as if it were one being with us. ~ Confucius, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
56:If you observe in all your acts the respect of yourself and of others, then shall you not be despised of any. ~ Confucius, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
57:The virtue of a man who has attained to the height of perfection, extends even to a foreknowledge of the future. ~ Confucius, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
58:The teaching of our master consists solely in this, to be upright in heart and to love one's neighbour as oneself ~ Confucius, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
59:By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest. ~ Confucius, #KEYS
60:Who is the superior man ? It is he who first puts his words in practice and then speaks in agreement with his acts. ~ Confucius, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
61:The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence." ~ Confucius, #KEYS
62:The superior soul asks nothing from any but itself. The vulgar and unmeritable man asks everything of others. ~ Confucius: Lia yu II XV. 20, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
63:The superior type of man is in all the circumstances of his life exempt from prejudices and obstinacy; he regulates himself by justice alone. ~ Confucius, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
64:From the most exalted in position to the humblest and obscurest of men all have one equal duty, to correct incessantly and improve themselves. ~ Confucius, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
65:When a man's knowledge is sufficient to attain, and his virtue is not sufficient to enable him to hold, whatever he may have gained, he will lose again. ~ Confucius, Analects, 15:32, i, #KEYS
66:Let the superior man bear himself in the commerce of men with an always dignified deference, regarding all men that dwell in the world as his own brothers. ~ Confucius, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
67:Thus the sage, always equal, awaits the comm and of destiny, while the vulgar throw themselves into a thousand dangers in a search for happiness at any price. ~ Confucius, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
68:The superior man lives in peace with all men with- out acting absolutely like them. The vulgar man acts absolutely like them without being in accord with them. ~ Confucius, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
69:But what a force is that of the sage who can live at peace with men without having the mobility of water and remain in the midst of them firm and incorruptible ! ~ Confucius, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
70:What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others." [Known as the Silver Rule'. Some think it's superior to the Golden Rule] ~ Confucius, (551-479), Chinese philosopher and politician, Wikipedia., #KEYS
71:In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of." ~ Confucius, (551-479), Chinese philosopher and politician, Wikipedia., #KEYS
72:The man who knows the principles of right reason is less than the man who loves them and he less then the man who makes of them his delight and practices them ~ Confucius:Lun-yu, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
73:He alone knows the law of life. Whoever does not seek out clearly what is the true good, cannot correct himself with sincerity and does not arrive at true perfection. ~ Confucius, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
74:The superior man does not set his mind either for or against anything." ~ Confucius, (551-479) a Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher of the Spring and Autumn period of Chinese history, Wikipedia., #KEYS
75:The law of the grand study or practical philosophy consists in developing and bringing into light the luminous principle of reason which we have received from heaven. ~ Confucius "Ta-hio" I, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
76:By three roads we can reach wisdom: the road of experience and this is the most difficult; the road of initiative and this is the easiest; and the road of reflection and this is the noblest. ~ Confucius, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
77:If a man is detested by the crowd, you must examine, before you judge him, why they condemn, and if a man is venerated by the crowd, equally must you, before you judge, examine why they admire. ~ Confucius, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
78:Never give a sword to a man who can't dance." ~ Confucius, (551-479), Chinese philosopher and politician. Emphasized personal and governmental morality, correctness of social relationships, justice, kindness, and sincerity, Wikipedia., #KEYS
79:The man who is sincere and careful to do nothing to others that he would not have done to him, is not far from the Law. What he does not desire to be done to him, let him not himself do to others. ~ Confucius, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
80:Whoever knows essentially his own nature, can know also that of other men and can penetrate into the nature of things. He can collaborate in the transformations and in the progress of heaven and of earth. ~ Confucius, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
81:What you love not in your superiors, do not to your inferiors; what you reprove in your inferiors, do not to your superiors; what you hate in those who precede you, do not to those who follow you...What you would not receive from those on your right, cast not upon those on your left...Let this be the rule of your conduct. ~ Confucius, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
82:If Confucius can serve as the Patron Saint of Chinese education, let me propose Socrates as his equivalent in a Western educational context - a Socrates who is never content with the initial superficial response, but is always probing for finer distinctions, clearer examples, a more profound form of knowing. Our concept of knowledge has changed since classical times, but Socrates has provided us with a timeless educational goal - ever deeper understanding. ~ Howard Gardner, #KEYS
83:It is the way of the superior man to prefer the concealment of his virtue, while it daily becomes more illustrious, and it is the way of the mean man to seek notoriety, while he daily goes more and more to ruin. It is characteristic of the superior man, appearing insipid, yet never to produce satiety; while showing a simple negligence, yet to have his accomplishments recognized; while seemingly plain, yet to be discriminating. He knows how what is distant lies in what is near. He knows where the wind proceeds from. He knows how what is minute becomes manifested. Such a one, we may be sure, will enter into virtue. ~ Confucius, #KEYS
84:To take the last issue, the difficult issue, first. The first great Dharma systems, East and West, all arose, without exception, in the so-called "axial period" (Karl Jaspers), that rather extraordinary period beginning around the 6th century B.C. (plus or minus several centuries), a period that saw the birth of Gautama Buddha, Lao Tzu, Confucius, Moses, Plato, Patanjali—a period that would soon give way, over the next few centuries, to include Ashvaghosa, Nagarjuna, Plotinus, Jesus, Philo, Valentinus…. Virtually all of the major tenets of the perennial philosophy were first laid down during this amazing era (in Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism, Judaism, Christianity….) ~ Ken Wilber, Integral Life, right-bucks, #KEYS
85:There is only one Ethics, as there is only one geometry. But the majority of men, it will be said, are ignorant of geometry. Yes, but as soon as they begin to apply themselves a little to that science, all are in agreement. Cultivators, workmen, artisans have not gone through courses in ethics; they have not read Cicero or Aristotle, but the moment they begin to think on the subject they become, without knowing it, the disciples of Cicero. The Indian dyer, the Tartar shepherd and the English sailor know what is just and what is injust. Confucius did not invent a system of ethics as one invents a system of physics. He had discovered it in the heart of all mankind. ~ Voltaire, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
86:There are who do not study or who, though they study, make no progress; let them not be discouraged. There are who put no questions or, when they do, cannot seize well the sense of the reply; let them not be discouraged. There are who can distinguish nothing or only confusedly; let them not be discouraged. There are who do not practice or have no solidity in their practice; let them not be discouraged. What another would do in one step, they will do in a hundred; what another would do in ten, they will do in a thousand. Assuredly, any man who follows this rule, however poorly enlightened he may be, will acquire intelligence and, however weak he may be, will acquire strength. ~ Confucius, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
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50 Philosophy Classics: List of Books Covered:
1. Hannah Arendt - The Human Condition (1958)
2. Aristotle - Nicomachean Ethics (4th century BC)
3. AJ Ayer - Language, Truth and Logic (1936)
4. Julian Baggini - The Ego Trick (2011)
5. Jean Baudrillard - Simulacra and Simulation (1981)
6. Simone de Beauvoir - The Second Sex (1952)
7. Jeremy Bentham - Principles of Morals and Legislation (1789)
8. Henri Bergson - Creative Evolution (1911)
9. David Bohm - Wholeness and the Implicate Order (1980)
10. Noam Chomsky - Understanding Power (2002)
11. Cicero - On Duties (44 BC)
12. Confucius - Analects (5th century BC)
13. Rene Descartes - Meditations (1641)
14. Ralph Waldo Emerson - Fate (1860)
15. Epicurus - Letters (3rd century BC)
16. Michel Foucault - The Order of Things (1966)
17. Harry Frankfurt - On Bullshit (2005)
18. Sam Harris - Free Will (2012)
19. GWF Hegel - Phenomenology of Spirit (1803)
20. Martin Heidegger - Being and Time (1927)
21. Heraclitus - Fragments#KEYS
*** WISDOM TROVE ***
1:All men are born good. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 2:The cautious seldom err. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 3:Woman is the masterpiece. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 4:Never seek illicit wealth. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 5:Excess weakens the spirits. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 6:Rotten wood cannot be carved. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 7:He who sling mud, lose ground. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 8:An angry man is full of poison. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 9:Sincerity is the way of heaven. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 10:To think twice is quite enough. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 11:A picture is poem without words. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 12:Be in harmony, yet be different. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 13:Heaven means to be one with God. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 14:One joy dispels a hundred cares. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 15:Whatever heaven ordains is best. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 16:Behind every smile there's teeth. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 17:The chase of gain is rich in hate ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 18:Words are the voice of the heart. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 19:A man of wisdom delights in water. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 20:Don't use cannon to kill musquito. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 21:I could see peace instead of this. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 22:In language clarity is everything. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 23:What the wise seek is in themselves ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 24:Humanity is the equity of the heart. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 25:When the wind blows,the grass bends. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 26:With a heavy load and a long journey ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 27:A heart set on love will do no wrong. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 28:It is better to play than do nothing. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 29:Man shoot at nothing, sure to hit it. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 30:Have no friends not equal to yourself. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 31:he who will not economize will agonize ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 32:Make fair agreements and stick to them ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 33:Never hesitate to ask a lesser person. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 34:No matter where you go – there you are ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 35:What is necessary is to rectify names. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 36:A youth is to be regarded with respect. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 37:Do not use a cannon to kill a mosquito. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 38:To know and not do, is to not yet know. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 39:Who contains himself goes seldom wrong. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 40:Every journey starts with a single step. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 41:Faithfulness and sincerity first of all. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 42:From a grain of sand in the Pearl comes. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 43:He who chases two rabbits, catches none. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 44:Learning without thought is labour lost. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 45:The funniest people are the saddest once ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 46:The object of the superior man is truth. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 47:The person of benevolence never worries. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 48:Wherever you go, go with all your heart. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 49:An angry person is always full of poison. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 50:Don't curse the darkness, light a candle. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 51:Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 52:Good is no hermit. It has ever neighbors. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 53:He who fails to prepare, prepares to fail ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 54:I am not an originator but a transmitter. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 55:If you chase two rabbits, you catch none. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 56:Seek Not Every Quality In One Individual. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 57:The man of humanity delights in mountains ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 58:The superior man limits his achievements. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 59:To be fond of learning is near to wisdom. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 60:To love a thing means wanting it to live. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 61:An image is better than one thousand words ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 62:Bird in hand makes it harder to blow nose. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 63:Every man knows the smell of his own fart. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 64:To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 65:True wisdom is knowing what you don't know ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 66:All things are already complete in oneself. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 67:Do not let a leader lead you on a bad path. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 68:Don't let your past determine your destiny. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 69:Excess and deficiency are equally at fault. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 70:He who is really kind, can never be unhappy ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 71:He who kisses girl on hillside is not level ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 72:I never really said all those things I said ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 73:Man who want pretty nurse, must be patient. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 74:Never tire to study. And to teach to others ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 75:Plan ahead or find trouble on the doorstep. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 76:Silence is a true friend who never betrays. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 77:When strict with oneself, one rarely fails. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 78:Heaven is author of the virtue that is in me ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 79:Never give a sword to a man who can't dance. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 80:The more people know, the more they forgive. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 81:The whole end of speech is to be understood. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 82:Time flows away like the water in the river. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 83:To understand yourself is the key to wisdom. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 84:When anger rises, think of the consequences. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 85:When frying small fish, disturb them little. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 86:When prosperity comes, do not use all of it. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 87:Good people strengthen themselves ceaselessly ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 88:If we don't know life, how can we know death? ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 89:Respect yourself and others will respect you. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 90:roads were made for journeys not destinations ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 91:Act with kindness but do not expect gratitude. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 92:Coloring requires a pure and clear background. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 93:Do unto others as you wish others do unto you. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 94:Future generation is the most important thing. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 95:Silence is the true friend that never betrays. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 96:Thought, unassisted by learning, is dangerous. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 97:Your eyes are always bigger than your stomach. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 98:A man who lacks reliability is utterly useless. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 99:He who will not economize will have to agonize. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 100:I followed my heart without breaking any rules. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 101:Learning, undigested by thought, is labor lost. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 102:Man who eat many prunes get good run for money. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 103:Return good for good; return evil with justice. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 104:Study the past, if you would define the future. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 105:A Nation's character is typified by its dancers. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 106:An inconvenience is an unrecognized opportunity. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 107:Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 108:Humility is the solid foundation of all virtues. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 109:One dedicated worker is worth a thousand slaves. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 110:Study the past if you want to define the future. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 111:A hammer shatters glass but it also forges steel. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 112:A man without a mustache is a man without a soul. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 113:Eat at your own as you would the table of a king. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 114:He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 115:Not to alter one's faults is to be faulty indeed. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 116:The inner nature of man is the province of Music. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 117:The sun and moon shine on all without partiality. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 118:Who heeds not the future will find sorrow at hand ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 119:All people are the same; only their habits differ. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 120:Baseball is wrong, man with four balls cannot walk ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 121:Faithfulness and sincerity are the highest things. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 122:He is the truly courageous man who never desponds. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 123:He who take cookie to bed have crummy night ahead. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 124:One hundred women are not worth a single testicle. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 125:Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 126:Sincerity and truth are the basis of every virtue. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 127:Teachers open the door ... you enter by yourself. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 128:The Essence of Knowledge is, having it, to use it. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 129:What is most needed for learning is a humble mind. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 130:When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 131:You cannot open a book without learning something. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 132:Ability will never catch up with the demand for it. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 133:Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 134:Heaven begat Virtue in me; what can man do unto me? ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 135:Settle one difficulty, and you keep a hundred away. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 136:Table your mistakes, learn from them, then move on. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 137:The journey with a 1000 miles begins with one step. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 138:The man of upright life is obeyed before he speaks. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 139:We should worship as though the deity were present. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 140:What can a man do with music who is not benevolent? ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 141:Even in killing men, observe the rules of propriety. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 142:Everything has its beauty, but not everyone sees it. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 143:Girl who sit on Judge's lap get honorable discharge. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 144:Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 145:If your desire is for good, the people will be good. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 146:The real fault is to have faults and not amend them. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 147:The way you cut your meat reflects the way you live. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 148:Without Goodness one cannot enjoy enduring happiness ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 149:Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 150:Signs and symbols rule the world, not words nor laws. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 151:The mirror reflects all objects without being sullied ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 152:Virtue is not solitary; it is bound to have neighbors ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 153:Benevolence is the characteristic element of humanity. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 154:If the great man be not grave, he will not be revered. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 155:If you don't know how to live, why wonder about death? ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 156:If you make a mistake, do not be afraid to correct it. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 157:I have never seen a man as fond of virtue as of women. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 158:In teaching there should be no distinction of classes. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 159:Let mourning stop when one's grief is fully expressed. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 160:Only the supremely wise and the ignorant do not alter. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 161:Heaven gives long life to the just and the intelligent. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 162:Men do not stumble over mountains, but over mole hills. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 163:To become a leader, you must first become a human being ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 164:To err and not reform, this may indeed be called error. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 165:A gentleman wishes to be slow to speak and quick to act. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 166:Do not impose on others what you yourself do not desire. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 167:If you don't want to do something,don't impose on others ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 168:I have not seen one who loves virtue as he loves beauty. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 169:One who can move mountains start with the little stones. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 170:Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 171:Remember even when alone, that the divine is everywhere. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 172:The great man is sparing in words but prodigal in deeds. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 173:The man who loves his job never works a day in his life. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 174:When admins have faults, they do not fear to ignore them ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 175:A gentleman is ashamed to let his words outrun his deeds. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 176:A superior man is one who is free from fear and anxieties ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 177:Big head, target for enemy; big heart, target for friend. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 178:Do not treat others as you yourself would not be treated. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 179:He who keeps danger in mind will rest safely in his seat. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 180:If you try to do too much, you will not achieve anything. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 181:If you want to change the world, first change your heart. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 182:The proper man understands equity, the small man profits. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 183:The strongest memory is not as strong as the weakest ink. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 184:The superior man is intelligently, not blindly, faithful. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 185:To lead uninstructed people to war is to throw them away. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 186:We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 187:What you do not wish upon yourself, extend not to others. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 188:When words lose their meaning, people lose their liberty. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 189:Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 190:Care not for being unknown, but seek to be worthy of note. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 191:Knowledge is recognizing what you know and what you don't. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 192:The Gods cannot help those who do not seize opportunities. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 193:The more you know yourself, the more you forgive yourself. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 194:The rich fool is like a pig that is choked by its own fat. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 195:Worry not that no one knows you; seek to be worth knowing. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 196:An oppressive government is more to be feared than a tiger. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 197:First there must be order and harmony within your own mind. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 198:It is better to live in peace than in bitterness and strife ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 199:Not to mend one's ways when one has erred is to err indeed. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 200:Respect the gods and the devils but keep them at a distance ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 201:The man who is master of himself drinks gravely and wisely. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 202:There are 1,000 lessons in defeat. But only one in victory. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 203:To throw oneself into strange teachings is quite dangerous. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 204:What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 205:You can cheat an honest man but not make a fool out of him. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 206:A man living without conflicts, as if he never lives at all. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 207:A truly great man never puts away the simplicity of a child. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 208:I'd rather die for speaking out, than to live and be silent. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 209:The end of the day is near when small men make long shadows. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 210:The love to Wisdom is getting closer to the own bright path. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 211:The superior man is distressed by his want (lack) of ability ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 212:Those who know the TRUTH are not equal to those who love it. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 213:To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 214:A fool marvels at rare things, but a wise man at common ones. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 215:Be loyal to yourself, charitable to neighbours, nothing more. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 216:He who works for his own interests will arouse much animosity ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 217:If I understand Change, I shall make no great mistake in Life ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 218:Never do to others what you would not like them to do to you. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 219:The parents age must be remembered, both for joy and anxiety. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 220:To be wealthy and honored in an unjust society is a disgrace. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 221:Worry not that no one knows of you; seek to be worth knowing. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 222:A great man is hard on himself; a small man is hard on others. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 223:A scholar who loves comfort is not fit to be called a scholar. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 224:Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object? ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 225:If you would one day renovate yourself, do so from day to day. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 226:Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 227:Never overlook wallflower at dance; may be dandelion in grass. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 228:There has never been a man mean and at the same time virtuous. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 229:The superior man is firm in the right way and not merely firm. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 230:Those who make virtue their profession are the ruin of virtue. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 231:You do not understand even life. How can you understand death? ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 232:A fool despises good counsel, but a wise man takes it to heart. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 233:Between friends, frequent reproofs make the friendship distant. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 234:Don't do unto others what you don't want others to do unto you. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 235:Gravity is only the bark of wisdom's tree, but it preserves it. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 236:Men's natures are alike; it is their habits that separate them. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 237:Our headstrong passions shut the door of our souls against God. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 238:The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their proper name. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 239:You turn the handle the way it goes, not the way it ought to go ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 240:Ah, music, sacred tongue of God! I hear thee calling and I come. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 241:A true gentleman makes demands upon himself but not upon others. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 242:Isn't it a pleasure to study and practice what you have learned? ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 243:It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 244:The gentleman prefers to be slow in word but diligent in action. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 245:The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 246:Wisdom is rooted in watching with affection the way people grow. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 247:A gentleman is calm and spacious: the vulgar are always fretting. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 248:An inch of time on the sundial is worth more than a foot of jade. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 249:Charity, like the sun, brightens every object on which it shines. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 250:Happiness is not at the top of the mountain, but in how to climb. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 251:He who knows right principles is not equal to him who loves them. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 252:If a man sets his heart on benevolence he will be free from evil. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 253:If you devote your life to seeking revenge, first dig two graves. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 254:If you know, say you know. If you don't know, say you don't know. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 255:If you see what is right and fail to act on it, you lack courage. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 256:I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 257:Labor, but slight not meditation; meditate, but slight not labor. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 258:Respect the gods, but have as little to do with them as possible. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 259:She who is born with beauty is born with a sorrow for many a man. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 260:The superior man is slow in his words and earnest in his conduct. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 261:To know your faults and be able to change is the greatest virtue. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 262:A gentleman would be ashamed should his deeds not match his words. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 263:He who knows all the answers has not been asked all the questions. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 264:Knowing what's correct and not doing it, it's the worst cowardice. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 265:The gentleman desires to be halting in speech but quick in action. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 266:The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 267:The tongue must be heavy indeed, because so few people can hold it ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 268:We should not be too familiar with the lower orders or with women. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 269:Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know more. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 270:A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 271:If either wealth or poverty are come by honesty, there is no shame. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 272:It is better not to proceed at all than to proceed without purpose. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 273:It is only the very wisest and the very stupidest who never change. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 274:The gem cannot be polished without friction nor man without trials. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 275:Those who do not study are only cattle dressed up in men's clothes. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 276:Those whose courses are different cannot lay plans for one another. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 277:Transport a handful of earth everyday and you will make a mountain. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 278:Writing cannot express all words, words cannot encompass all ideas. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 279:All the darkness in the world can't put out the light of one candle. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 280:A man exercising no forethought will soon experience present sorrow. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 281:Everyone eats and drinks; yet only few appreciate the taste of food. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 282:If there is harmony in the home, there will be order in the nations. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 283:The vices come as passengers, visit us as guest and stay as masters. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 284:They must often change who would be constant in happiness or wisdom. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 285:True goodness springs from a man's own heart. All men are born good. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 286:True knowledge is when one knows the limitations of one's knowledge. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 287:When a wise man points at the moon the imbecile examines the finger. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 288:A man who does not forget an agreement is resolved and honorable man. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 289:A workman who wants to do his work well must first prepare his tools. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 290:Consideration for others is the basic of a good life, a good society. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 291:Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 292:Grieve not that men do not know you; grieve that you do not know men. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 293:If you don't know how to serve men, why worry about serving the gods? ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 294:Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon or star. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 295:It is man that makes truth great, and not truth that makes man great. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 296:Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 297:The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 298:The superior man loves his soul; the inferior man loves his property. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 299:They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 300:Three things cannot long be hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 301:When people are educated, the distinction between classes disappears. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 302:If you lead the people with correctness, who will dare not be correct? ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 303:If you make a mistake and do not correct it, this is called a mistake. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 304:Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon and star. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 305:Men’s natures are alike, it is their habits that carry them far apart. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 306:Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 307:The firm, the enduring, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 308:The mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 309:Therefore the superior man is watchful over himself, when he is alone. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 310:There is only one thing in life which never changes, and it is change. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 311:A gentleman considers what is right; the vulgar consider what will pay. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 312:A happy union with wife and child is like the music of lutes and harps. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 313:A wise man has dignity without pride; a fool has pride without dignity. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 314:Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 315:Every thoughtful pin on pinterest has beauty. But not everyone can see. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 316:He who wishes to secure the good of others has already secured his own. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 317:If my mind be not engaged in worship, it is as though I worshipped not. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 318:I was complaining that I had no shoes till I met a man who had no feet. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 319:Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 320:Stars are holes in the sky from which the light of the infinite shines. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 321:Straight-forwardness, without the rules of propriety, becomes rudeness. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 322:To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 323:To study and not think is a waste. To think and not study is dangerous. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 324:When you breathe, you inspire, and when you do not breathe, you expire. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 325:A lion chased me up a tree, and I greatly enjoyed the view from the top. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 326:By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 327:Desire to have things done quickly prevents their being done thoroughly. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 328:He who merely knows right principles is not equal to him who loves them. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 329:He who wished to secure the good of others, has already secured his own. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 330:I am not concerned that I am not known, I seek to be worthy to be known. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 331:It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 332:Not too isolated, not too many relationships, the middle, that's wisdom. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 333:The only people who cannot change are the most wise and the most stupid. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 334:Why should man boast of his strength; is not the horse stronger than he? ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 335:Cultivate the root; the leaves and branches will take care of themselves. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 336:Heaven sends down its good and evil symbols and wise men act accordingly. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 337:He who crosses the ocean twice without washing is a dirty double crosser. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 338:If a man be under the influence of anger his conduct will not be correct. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 339:If an urn lacks the characteristics of an urn, how can we call it an urn? ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 340:It's only in winter that the pine and cypress are known to be evergreens. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 341:I want you to be everything that's you, deep at the center of your being. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 342:Of all that Heaven produces and nourishes, there is none so great as man. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 343:People with virtue must speak out; People who speak are not all virtuous. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 344:The wise escape doubt; the good-hearted, trouble; the bold, apprehension. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 345:When three persons work together, each can be the teacher in some aspects ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 346:Which demands a lot of himself and some others, will be free from hatred. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 347:Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 348:Everyone calls his son his son, whether he has talents or has not talents. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 349:Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 350:How abundantly do spiritual beings display the powers that belong to them! ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 351:If one is guided by profit in one's actions, one will incur much ill will. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 352:To see what is right and not to do it is want of courage, or of principle. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 353:Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts? ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 354:You will never know how sharp a sword is unless it's drawn from its sheath ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 355:Fine words and an insinuating appearance are seldom associated with virtue. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 356:Is virtue a thing remote? I wish to be virtuous, and lo! Virtue is at hand. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 357:It is moral cowardice to leave undone what one perceives to be right to do. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 358:It is not possible for one to teach others who cannot teach his own family. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 359:Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 360:The Man who says he can, and the man who says he can not.. Are both correct ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 361:The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 362:Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 363:Who keeps the old akindle and adds new knowledge is fitted to be a teacher. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 364:A man without persistence will never make a good shaman or a good physician. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 365:Even four harnessed horses cannot bring imprudent words back into the mouth. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 366:He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 367:If my soul is not engaged in worship, it is even as though I worshipped not. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 368:I live in a very small house, but my windows look out on a very large world. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 369:It doesn't make a difference how gradually you go so long as you don't stop. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 370:Keep it simple and focus on what matters. Don't let yourself be overwhelmed. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 371:The really faithful lover of learning holds fast to the Good Way till death. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 372:The way out is through the door. Why is it that no one will use this method? ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 373:Those who break down the dikes will themselves be drowned in the inundation. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 374:To study and at times practice what one has learned, is this not a pleasure? ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 375:We are so busy doing the urgent that we don't have time to do the important. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 376:A good man does not make a warrior, just as good steel does not go for nails. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 377:How should I know anything about another world when I know so little of this? ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 378:If I am virtuous and worthy, for whom should I not maintain a proper concern? ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 379:It is the law of nature that woman should be held under the dominance of man. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 380:I transmit but do not create. I place my trust in the teachings of antiquity. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 381:Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 382:Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 383:The gentleman sees what is right while the small man sees what is profitable. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 384:When I walk along with two others, from at least one I will be able to learn. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 385:When there are duties to perform [true] servants and sons serve their labors. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 386:At fifteen my mind was directed to study, and at thirty I knew where to stand. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 387:In speaking, it is best to be clear and say just enough to convey the meaning. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 388:The superior man in regard to his speech is anxious that it should be sincere. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 389:To know what is the right thing to do and not do it is the greatest cowardice. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 390:We should keep the dead before our eyes, and honor them as though still living ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 391:Wisdom is worried for being slow in its speech and expeditious in its actions. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 392:A common man marvels at uncommon things. A wise man marvels at the commonplace. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 393:A youth, when at home, should be filial, and, abroad, respectful to his elders. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 394:Better than the one who knows what is right is the one who loves what is right. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 395:Ceremonies are the first thing to be attended to in the practice of government. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 396:Clever talk and domineering manner have little to with being a Man at His Best. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 397:If what one has to say is not better than silence, then one should keep silent. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 398:It is better to light one small candle of gratitude than to curse the darkness. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 399:Knowledge without practice is useless. Practice without knowledge is dangerous. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 400:Love is like a spice. It can sweeten your life - however, it can spoil it, too. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 401:Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in getting up every time we do. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 402:Reviewing what you have learned and learning anew, you are fit to be a teacher. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 403:The contrived language and the flattering attitude rarely come with the virtue. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 404:The great man is many-minded, and not one-sided. The common man is the reverse. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 405:The superior man, when resting in safety, does not forget that danger may come. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 406:You must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 407:Fine words and an insinuating appearance are seldom associated with true virtue. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 408:Happiness does not consist in having what you want, but in wanting what you have ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 409:He who cannot describe the problem will never find the solution to that problem. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 410:He who flatters a man is his enemy. he who tells him of his faults is his maker. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 411:If names be not correct, language is not in accordance with the truth of things. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 412:If you don't know the life yet, how could be possible for you to know the death? ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 413:Only by perfect virtue can the perfect path, in all its courses, be made a fact. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 414:The scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 415:To know is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 416:A man who does not think and plan long ahead will find trouble right at his door. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 417:A man who reviews the old so as to find out the new is qualified to teach others. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 418:Give a man a fish, feed home for a day. Teach a man to fish, feed for a lifetime. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 419:If I do not participate in the sacrifice, it is as if I did not sacrifice at all. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 420:Love makes a spot beautiful: who chooses not to dwell in love, has he got wisdom? ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 421:Those who are firm, enduring, simple and unpretentious are the nearest to virtue. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 422:To know everything is to know nothing, but to know nothing is to know everything. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 423:What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 424:If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 425:If a superior man abandon virtue, how can he fulfil the requirements of that name? ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 426:Justice is like the north star, which is fixed, and all the rest revolve about it. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 427:Rather than caring about whether or not you are known, strive to be worth knowing. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 428:There is nobody but eats and drinks. But they are few who can distinguish flavors. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 429:To be poor without murmuring is difficult. To be rich without being proud is easy. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 430:What you know, you know, what you don't know, you don't know. This is true wisdom. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 431:Among the appliances to transform the people, sound and appearances are but trivial ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 432:Be strict with yourself but least reproachful of others and complaint is kept afar. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 433:If I hear the way of truth in the morning, I am content even to die in the evening. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 434:Learn, as if never overtaking your object, and yet as if apprehensive of losing it. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 435:Study without reflection is a waste of time; reflection without study is dangerous. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 436:There is no body but eats and drinks. But they are few who can distinguish flavors. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 437:The Superior Man is aware of Righteousness, the inferior man is aware of advantage. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 438:Be aroused by poetry; structure yourself with propriety, refine yourself with music. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 439:Character is the backbone of our human culture. Music is the flowering of character. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 440:Humankind differs from the animals only by a little and most people throw that away. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 441:In your promises cleave to what is right, And you will be able to fulfill your word. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 442:Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 443:There are three unfilial acts: the greatest of these is the failure to produce sons. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 444:The superior man is satisfied and composed; the mean man is always full of distress. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 445:Waste begets self-will; thrift begets meanness: but better be mean than self-willed. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 446:When music and courtesy are better understood and appreciated, there will be no war. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 447:A lack of patience in trifling matters might lead to the disruption of great project. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 448:Don't worry that other people don't know you; worry that you don't know other people. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 449:Gentlemen should not waste their time on trivial games - they should play go[3] ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 450:If a man in the morning hear the right way, he may die in the evening without regret. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 451:The noble-minded are calm and steady. Little people are forever fussing and fretting. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 452:To learn and from time to time to apply what one has learned - isn't that a pleasure? ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 453:To learn without thinking is labour in vain, to think without learning is desolation. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 454:A disciple having asked for a definition of charity, the Master said LOVE ONE ANOTHER. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 455:A ruthless man extends his ruthlessness from those he does not love to those he loves. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 456:Only after Winter comes do we know that the pine and the cypress are the last to fade. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 457:Past scholars studied to improve themselves; Today's scholars study to impress others. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 458:Some may study side by side, and yet be asunder when they come to the logic of things. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 459:The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 460:Those who cannot forgive others break the bridge over which they themselves must pass. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 461:A man should practice what he preaches, but a man should also preach what he practices. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 462:Even if people do not know what real kindness is, they nonetheless have it within them. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 463:I have yet to meet a man as fond of high moral conduct as he is of outward appearances. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 464:It cannot be when the root is neglected that what springs from it will be well ordered. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 465:Learn as if you were not reaching your goal and as though you were scared of missing it ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 466:Sincerity is the end and beginning of things; without sincerity there would be nothing. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 467:The path may not be left for an instant. If it could be left, it would not be the path. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 468:The virtuous man is driven by responsibility, the non-virtuous man is driven by profit. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 469:The wise are free from perplexities; the virtuous from anxiety; and the bold from fear. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 470:Trying to satisfy one's desires with possessions is like putting out a fire with straw. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 471:A good man will certainly also possess courage; but a brave man is not necessarily good. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 472:A man who has committed a mistake and does not correct it is committing another mistake. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 473:By gaining the people, the kingdom is gained; by losing the people, the kingdom is lost. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 474:Death and life have their determined appointments; riches and honors depend upon heaven. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 475:Don't complain about the snow on your neighbor's roof when your own doorstep is unclean. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 476:Don't worry about being acknowledged by others; worry about failing to acknowledge them. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 477:The demands that a great man makes are on himself; those of a petty man are upon others. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 478:There is one word which may serve as a rule of practice for all one's life -reciprocity. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 479:The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 480:A man may not transgress the bounds of major morals, but may make errors in minor morals. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 481:Expect much from yourself and little from others and you will avoid incurring resentments ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 482:Not feeling compassion for a stranger is like not feeling when one's foot has caught fire ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 483:To be truly happy and contented, you must let go of what it means to be happy or content. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 484:When you are laboring for others let it be with the same zeal as if it were for yourself. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 485:Attack the evil that is within yourself, rather than attacking the evil that is in others. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 486:If you did not do so for the sake of riches,You must have done so for the sake of novelty. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 487:Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 488:Be loyal and trustworthy. Do not befriend anyone who is lower than yourself in this regard. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 489:Don't worry if people don't recognize your merits; worry that you may not recognize theirs. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 490:For benefits return benefits; for injuries return justice without any admixture of revenge. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 491:Study as though you cannot catch up to it, and as though you fear you are going to lose it. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 492:The highest kind of man is the one who does before talking and practices what he professes. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 493:Do not worry if others do not understand you. Instead worry if you do not understand others. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 494:Man is born with uprightness. If one loses it, he will be lucky if he escapes with his life. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 495:Not knowing life, how can we know death? Why talk of spirits when you do not understand men? ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 496:One who will study for three years. Without thought of reward. Would be hard indeed to find. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 497:Reading without thinking will confuse you.Thinking without reading will place you in danger. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 498:The people may be made to follow a path of action but they may not be made to understand it. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 499:The superior person gathers his weapons together in order to provide against the unforeseen. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 500:The true gentleman does not preach what he practices till he has practiced what he preaches. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove *** NEWFULLDB 2.4M ***
1:All men are born good. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
2:You are what you think. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
3:The cautious seldom err. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
4:A gentleman is not a pot. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
5:Have no vicious thoughts. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
6:Woman is the masterpiece. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
7:If you chase two rabbits, ~ Confucius, #NFDB
8:Never seek illicit wealth. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
9:Excess weakens the spirits. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
10:Language is insight itself. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
11:Justice for All in the World ~ Confucius, #NFDB
12:The good man does not grieve ~ Confucius, #NFDB
13:Et maleri er et dikt uten ord ~ Confucius, #NFDB
14:Rotten wood cannot be carved. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
15:He who sling mud, lose ground. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
16:An angry man is full of poison. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
17:Die Wahrheit hat keinen Erfolg. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
18:Sincerity is the way of heaven. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
19:To think twice is quite enough. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
20:A picture is poem without words. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
21:Be in harmony, yet be different. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
22:Heaven means to be one with God. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
23:One joy dispels a hundred cares. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
24:Whatever heaven ordains is best. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
25:Behind every smile there's teeth. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
26:Insecurity is worse than poverty. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
27:The chase of gain is rich in hate ~ Confucius, #NFDB
28:Words are the voice of the heart. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
29:A man of wisdom delights in water. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
30:Don't use cannon to kill musquito. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
31:I could see peace instead of this. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
32:In language clarity is everything. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
33:An educated woman is a stupid woman ~ Confucius, #NFDB
34:Study the past to define the future ~ Confucius, #NFDB
35:What the wise seek is in themselves ~ Confucius, #NFDB
36:Grieve not that men do not know you; ~ Confucius, #NFDB
37:Humanity is the equity of the heart. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
38:When the wind blows,the grass bends. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
39:With a heavy load and a long journey ~ Confucius, #NFDB
40:A heart set on love will do no wrong. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
41:It is better to play than do nothing. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
42:Man shoot at nothing, sure to hit it. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
43:Men of principle are sure to be bold, ~ Confucius, #NFDB
44:Tell people - and they may forget... ~ Confucius, #NFDB
45:As Confucius said many years ago: ~ Robin S Sharma, #NFDB
46:Great is the man who can overcome the ~ Confucius, #NFDB
47:Have no friends not equal to yourself. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
48:he who will not economize will agonize ~ Confucius, #NFDB
49:Make fair agreements and stick to them ~ Confucius, #NFDB
50:Never hesitate to ask a lesser person. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
51:No matter where you go, there you are. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
52:What is necessary is to rectify names. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
53:An educated woman is a worthless woman. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
54:A youth is to be regarded with respect. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
55:Do not use a cannon to kill a mosquito. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
56:To know and not do, is to not yet know. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
57:Who contains himself goes seldom wrong. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
58:Confucius does his crossword with a pen. ~ Tori Amos, #NFDB
59:Every journey starts with a single step. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
60:Faithfulness and sincerity first of all. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
61:From a grain of sand in the Pearl comes. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
62:He who chases two rabbits, catches none. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
63:Learning without thought is labour lost. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
64:The funniest people are the saddest once ~ Confucius, #NFDB
65:The funniest people are the saddest ones ~ Confucius, #NFDB
66:The object of the superior man is truth. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
67:The person of benevolence never worries. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
68:Wherever you go, go with all your heart. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
69:Your life is what your thoughts make it. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
70:Zuviel ist gerade so falsch wie zuwenig. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
71:An angry person is always full of poison. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
72:At fifteen, my mind was bent on learning. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
73:Don't curse the darkness, light a candle. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
74:Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
75:Good is no hermit. It has ever neighbors. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
76:He who fails to prepare, prepares to fail ~ Confucius, #NFDB
77:I am not an originator but a transmitter. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
78:Seek Not Every Quality In One Individual. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
79:The man of humanity delights in mountains ~ Confucius, #NFDB
80:The one who teaches is the giver of eyes. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
81:The superior man limits his achievements. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
82:To be fond of learning is near to wisdom. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
83:To love a thing means wanting it to live. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
84:An image is better than one thousand words ~ Confucius, #NFDB
85:A noble minded person is not an implement. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
86:Bird in hand makes it harder to blow nose. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
87:Every man knows the smell of his own fart. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
88:Success depends upon previous preparation. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
89:To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
90:True wisdom is knowing what you don't know ~ Confucius, #NFDB
91:All things are already complete in oneself. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
92:Do not let a leader lead you on a bad path. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
93:Don't let your past determine your destiny. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
94:Do unto others what you want done unto you. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
95:Excess and deficiency are equally at fault. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
96:He who is really kind, can never be unhappy ~ Confucius, #NFDB
97:He who kisses girl on hillside is not level ~ Confucius, #NFDB
98:I never really said all those things I said ~ Confucius, #NFDB
99:In worthy teaching, all things are related. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
100:Man who want pretty nurse, must be patient. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
101:Never tire to study. And to teach to others ~ Confucius, #NFDB
102:Plan ahead or find trouble on the doorstep. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
103:Silence is a true friend who never betrays. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
104:The perfect man does not hunt after wealth. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
105:When strict with oneself, one rarely fails. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
106:Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
107:Heaven is author of the virtue that is in me ~ Confucius, #NFDB
108:I hate to tell but now is all there ever is. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
109:Never give a sword to a man who can't dance. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
110:The more people know, the more they forgive. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
111:The whole end of speech is to be understood. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
112:Think of tomorrow, the past can't be mended. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
113:Time flows away like the water in the river. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
114:To understand yourself is the key to wisdom. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
115:When anger rises, think of the consequences. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
116:When frying small fish, disturb them little. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
117:When prosperity comes, do not use all of it. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
118:Do everything in moderation, even moderation. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
119:Don't worry that other people don't know you; ~ Confucius, #NFDB
120:Good people strengthen themselves ceaselessly ~ Confucius, #NFDB
121:If we don't know life, how can we know death? ~ Confucius, #NFDB
122:Imagination is more important than knowledge. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
123:Respect yourself and others will respect you. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
124:roads were made for journeys not destinations ~ Confucius, #NFDB
125:Act with kindness but do not expect gratitude. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
126:Better light a candle than curse the darkness. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
127:Do unto others as you wish others do unto you. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
128:Future generation is the most important thing. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
129:he who will not economize will have to agonize ~ Confucius, #NFDB
130:Silence is the true friend that never betrays. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
131:Study the past if you would define the future. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
132:Thought, unassisted by learning, is dangerous. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
133:"When anger rises, think of the consequences." ~ Confucius, #NFDB
134:Your eyes are always bigger than your stomach. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
135:Act with kindness, but do not expect gratitude. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
136:A man who lacks reliability is utterly useless. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
137:Donde hay educación no hay distinción de clases ~ Confucius, #NFDB
138:I followed my heart without breaking any rules. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
139:Learning, undigested by thought, is labor lost. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
140:Man who eat many prunes get good run for money. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
141:Return good for good; return evil with justice. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
142:Study the past, if you would divine the future. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
143:A Nation's character is typified by its dancers. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
144:An inconvenience is an unrecognized opportunity. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
145:Cultivated people foster what is good in others, ~ Confucius, #NFDB
146:Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
147:Exemplary people concern themselves with virtue, ~ Confucius, #NFDB
148:Humility is the solid foundation of all virtues. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
149:Man who get kicked in testicles left holding bag ~ Confucius, #NFDB
150:One dedicated worker is worth a thousand slaves. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
151:Study the past if you want to define the future. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
152:The man who chases two rabbits, catches neither. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
153:A hammer shatters glass but it also forges steel. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
154:A man without a mustache is a man without a soul. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
155:Eat at your own as you would the table of a king. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
156:He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
157:Menns lærdom kommer av boker, kvinners av naturen ~ Confucius, #NFDB
158:Not to alter one's faults is to be faulty indeed. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
159:Teachers open the door ... you enter by yourself. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
160:The inner nature of man is the province of Music. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
161:The sun and moon shine on all without partiality. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
162:Who heeds not the future will find sorrow at hand ~ Confucius, #NFDB
163:All people are the same; only their habits differ. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
164:"An inconvenience is an unrecognized opportunity." ~ Confucius, #NFDB
165:Baseball is wrong, man with four balls cannot walk ~ Confucius, #NFDB
166:Faithfulness and sincerity are the highest things. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
167:He is the truly courageous man who never desponds. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
168:He who take cookie to bed have crummy night ahead. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
169:How dare I claim to be a sage or a benevolent man? ~ Confucius, #NFDB
170:One hundred women are not worth a single testicle. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
171:Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
172:Sincerity and truth are the basis of every virtue. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
173:The Essence of Knowledge is, having it, to use it. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
174:What is most needed for learning is a humble mind. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
175:When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
176:You cannot open a book without learning something. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
177:Ability will never catch up with the demand for it. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
178:Anyone can find the switch after the lights are on. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
179:Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
180:Everything has beauty, but not everyone can see it. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
181:Heaven begat Virtue in me; what can man do unto me? ~ Confucius, #NFDB
182:Settle one difficulty, and you keep a hundred away. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
183:Table your mistakes, learn from them, then move on. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
184:The journey with a 1000 miles begins with one step. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
185:The man of upright life is obeyed before he speaks. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
186:We should worship as though the deity were present. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
187:What can a man do with music who is not benevolent? ~ Confucius, #NFDB
188:And remember, no matter where you go, there you are. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
189:Even in killing men, observe the rules of propriety. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
190:Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.
~ Confucius?,#NFDB
191:Girl who sit on Judge's lap get honorable discharge. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
192:He governs his soul and expects nothing from others. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
193:Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
194:If your desire is for good, the people will be good. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
195:LEARN AS THOUGH YOU WOULD NEVER BE ABLE TO MASTER IT ~ Confucius, #NFDB
196:The real fault is to have faults and not amend them. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
197:The way you cut your meat reflects the way you live. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
198:Wherever you go, go with all your heart. ~Confucius ~ K Langston, #NFDB
199:Without Goodness one cannot enjoy enduring happiness ~ Confucius, #NFDB
200:Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
201:Es mejor encender una vela que maldecir la oscuridad. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
202:Signs and symbols rule the world, not words nor laws. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
203:The mirror reflects all objects without being sullied ~ Confucius, #NFDB
204:The sage is happy everywhere, the whole earth is his. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
205:Virtue is not solitary; it is bound to have neighbors ~ Confucius, #NFDB
206:Benevolence is the characteristic element of humanity. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
207:If you don't know how to live, why wonder about death? ~ Confucius, #NFDB
208:I have never seen a man as fond of virtue as of women. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
209:In teaching there should be no distinction of classes. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
210:Let mourning stop when one's grief is fully expressed. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
211:Men do not stumble over mountains, but over molehills. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
212:Only the supremely wise and the ignorant do not alter. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
213:To rank the effort above the prize may be called love. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
214:Vergiss Kränkungen, doch Vergiss Freundlichkeiten nie. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
215:Wo ein Gebildeter weilt, kann keine Rohheit aufkommen. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
216:Don't do unto others what you don't want done unto you. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
217:Heaven gives long life to the just and the intelligent. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
218:Men do not stumble over mountains, but over mole hills. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
219:To become a leader, you must first become a human being ~ Confucius, #NFDB
220:To err and not reform, this may indeed be called error. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
221:A gentleman wishes to be slow to speak and quick to act. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
222:Do not impose on others what you yourself do not desire. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
223:If you don't want to do something,don't impose on others ~ Confucius, #NFDB
224:I have not seen one who loves virtue as he loves beauty. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
225:One who can move mountains start with the little stones. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
226:Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
227:Remember even when alone, that the divine is everywhere. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
228:The great man is sparing in words but prodigal in deeds. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
229:The man who loves his job never works a day in his life. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
230:When admins have faults, they do not fear to ignore them ~ Confucius, #NFDB
231:Where words lose their meaning, people lose their lives. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
232:A gentleman is ashamed to let his words outrun his deeds. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
233:A superior man is one who is free from fear and anxieties ~ Confucius, #NFDB
234:Big head, target for enemy; big heart, target for friend. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
235:Constantly observe sincerity and fidelity and good faith. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
236:Do not treat others as you yourself would not be treated. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
237:If I am walking with two people, both will be my teachers ~ Confucius, #NFDB
238:If you try to do too much, you will not achieve anything. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
239:If you want to change the world, first change your heart. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
240:The proper man understands equity, the small man profits. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
241:The strongest memory is not as strong as the weakest ink. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
242:The superior man is intelligently, not blindly, faithful. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
243:To lead uninstructed people to war is to throw them away. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
244:We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
245:What you do not wish upon yourself, extend not to others. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
246:When words lose their meaning, people lose their freedom. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
247:When words lose their meaning, people lose their liberty. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
248:Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
249:Confucius say, man with hand in pocket feel cocky all day ~ Sylvia Day, #NFDB
250:Knowledge is recognizing what you know and what you don't. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
251:The Gods cannot help those who do not seize opportunities. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
252:The more you know yourself, the more you forgive yourself. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
253:The rich fool is like a pig that is choked by its own fat. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
254:To see what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
255:What you don´t want done to yourself, do not do to others. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
256:Worry not that no one knows you; seek to be worth knowing. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
257:A gentleman can see a question from all sides without bias. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
258:An oppressive government is more to be feared than a tiger. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
259:Do not do to others what you do not want them to do to you. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
260:First there must be order and harmony within your own mind. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
261:It is better to live in peace than in bitterness and strife ~ Confucius, #NFDB
262:Not to mend one's ways when one has erred is to err indeed. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
263:Respect the gods and the devils but keep them at a distance ~ Confucius, #NFDB
264:The man who is master of himself drinks gravely and wisely. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
265:There are 1,000 lessons in defeat. But only one in victory. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
266:To throw oneself into strange teachings is quite dangerous. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
267:What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
268:You can cheat an honest man but not make a fool out of him. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
269:A man living without conflicts, as if he never lives at all. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
270:American beer like sex on boat. Both fucking close to water. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
271:Aprender sin pensar es inútil. Pensar sin aprender peligroso ~ Confucius, #NFDB
272:A truly great man never puts away the simplicity of a child. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
273:Death and life have their determined appointments. —Confucius ~ S T Abby, #NFDB
274:I'd rather die for speaking out, than to live and be silent. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
275:Study the past if you would define the future. --CONFUCIUS ~ Steve Berry, #NFDB
276:The end of the day is near when small men make long shadows. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
277:The love to Wisdom is getting closer to the own bright path. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
278:The superior man is distressed by his want (lack) of ability ~ Confucius, #NFDB
279:Those who know the TRUTH are not equal to those who love it. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
280:To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
281:What we would not have done to us, we must not do to others. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
282:A fool marvels at rare things, but a wise man at common ones. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
283:Be loyal to yourself, charitable to neighbours, nothing more. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
284:Don't make to others what you don't want them to make to you. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
285:Good people strengthen themselves ceaselessly. Confucius ~ Robin S Sharma, #NFDB
286:He who works for his own interests will arouse much animosity ~ Confucius, #NFDB
287:If I understand Change, I shall make no great mistake in Life ~ Confucius, #NFDB
288:Never do to others what you would not like them to do to you. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
289:The parents age must be remembered, both for joy and anxiety. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
290:To be wealthy and honored in an unjust society is a disgrace. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
291:To be wronged is nothing, unless you continue to remember it. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
292:You are not yet able to serve men, how can you serve spirits? ~ Confucius, #NFDB
293:A great man is hard on himself; a small man is hard on others. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
294:A scholar who loves comfort is not fit to be called a scholar. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
295:Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object? ~ Confucius, #NFDB
296:If you would one day renovate yourself, do so from day to day. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
297:Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
298:Never overlook wallflower at dance; may be dandelion in grass. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
299:There has never been a man mean and at the same time virtuous. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
300:The superior man is firm in the right way and not merely firm. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
301:Those who make virtue their profession are the ruin of virtue. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
302:You do not understand even life. How can you understand death? ~ Confucius, #NFDB
303:A fool despises good counsel, but a wise man takes it to heart. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
304:Between friends, frequent reproofs make the friendship distant. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
305:Don't do unto others what you don't want others to do unto you. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
306:Gravity is only the bark of wisdom's tree, but it preserves it. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
307:Men's natures are alike; it is their habits that separate them. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
308:Men’s natures are alike; it is their habits that separate them. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
309:Our headstrong passions shut the door of our souls against God. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
310:Put always in the first rank uprightness of heart and fidelity. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
311:The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their proper name. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
312:You turn the handle the way it goes, not the way it ought to go ~ Confucius, #NFDB
313:Ah, music, sacred tongue of God! I hear thee calling and I come. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
314:A true gentleman makes demands upon himself but not upon others. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
315:He who searches for evil, must first look at his own reflection. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
316:Isn't it a pleasure to study and practice what you have learned? ~ Confucius, #NFDB
317:It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
318:The gentleman prefers to be slow in word but diligent in action. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
319:The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
320:Wisdom is rooted in watching with affection the way people grow. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
321:A gentleman is calm and spacious: the vulgar are always fretting. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
322:An inch of time on the sundial is worth more than a foot of jade. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
323:Charity, like the sun, brightens every object on which it shines. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
324:Dimmi e dimenticherò. Mostrami e ricorderò. Coinvolgimi e capirò. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
325:Happiness is not at the top of the mountain, but in how to climb. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
326:If a man sets his heart on benevolence he will be free from evil. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
327:If you devote your life to seeking revenge, first dig two graves. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
328:If you know, say you know. If you don't know, say you don't know. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
329:I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
330:I slept and dreamt life is beauty, I woke and found life is duty. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
331:Labor, but slight not meditation; meditate, but slight not labor. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
332:Respect the gods, but have as little to do with them as possible. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
333:She who is born with beauty is born with a sorrow for many a man. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
334:The superior man is slow in his words and earnest in his conduct. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
335:To know your faults and be able to change is the greatest virtue. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
336:A gentleman would be ashamed should his deeds not match his words. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
337:Confucius said, ‘Wherever you go, go with all your heart, ~ Brittainy C Cherry, #NFDB
338:He has not lived in vain who dies the day he is told about the Way ~ Confucius, #NFDB
339:He who knows all the answers has not been asked all the questions. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
340:Knowing what's correct and not doing it, it's the worst cowardice. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
341:Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change. —Confucius ~ Max H Bazerman, #NFDB
342:The gentleman desires to be halting in speech but quick in action. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
343:The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
344:The tongue must be heavy indeed, because so few people can hold it ~ Confucius, #NFDB
345:We should not be too familiar with the lower orders or with women. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
346:Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know more. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
347:A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
348:If either wealth or poverty are come by honesty, there is no shame. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
349:It is better not to proceed at all than to proceed without purpose. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
350:It is only the very wisest and the very stupidest who never change. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
351:Life is simple, but we insist on making it complicated. —Confucius ~ Jeb Blount, #NFDB
352:The gem cannot be polished without friction nor man without trials. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
353:The wise never doubt. The Humane never worry. The brave never fear. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
354:Those who do not study are only cattle dressed up in men's clothes. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
355:Those whose courses are different cannot lay plans for one another. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
356:Transport a handful of earth everyday and you will make a mountain. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
357:Wenn man noch nicht das Leben kennt, wie sollte man den Tod kennen. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
358:Writing cannot express all words, words cannot encompass all ideas. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
359:All the darkness in the world can't put out the light of one candle. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
360:A man exercising no forethought will soon experience present sorrow. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
361:Everyone eats and drinks; yet only few appreciate the taste of food. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
362:It does not matter how slowly you go, so long as you do not stop.
~ Confucius,#NFDB
363:Quando le parole perdono di senso, i popoli perdono la loro libertà. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
364:The vices come as passengers, visit us as guest and stay as masters. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
365:True goodness springs from a man's own heart. All men are born good. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
366:True knowledge is when one knows the limitations of one's knowledge. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
367:When a wise man points at the moon the imbecile examines the finger. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
368:Whosoever is truly enlightened, cannot fail to arrive at perfection. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
369:A man who does not forget an agreement is resolved and honorable man. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
370:A workman who wants to do his work well must first prepare his tools. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
371:Consideration for others is the basis of a good life, a good society. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
372:Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
373:If you don't know how to serve men, why worry about serving the gods? ~ Confucius, #NFDB
374:Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon or star. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
375:It is man that makes truth great, and not truth that makes man great. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
376:Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
377:The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
378:The superior man loves his soul; the inferior man loves his property. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
379:They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
380:Three things cannot long be hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
381:Virtue shows itself in the lowest as well as in the sublimest things. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
382:When people are educated, the distinction between classes disappears. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
383:Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.-- Confucius ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
384:If a craftsman wants to do good work, he must first sharpen his tools. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
385:If the will be set on virtue, there will be no practice of wickedness. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
386:If you lead the people with correctness, who will dare not be correct? ~ Confucius, #NFDB
387:If you make a mistake and do not correct it, this is called a mistake. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
388:Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
389:The firm, the enduring, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
390:Therefore the superior man is watchful over himself, when he is alone. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
391:There is only one thing in life which never changes, and it is change. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
392:To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness ~ Confucius, #NFDB
393:What you do not wish to be done to yourselves, do not do to other men. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
394:You can force the people to obey; you cannot force them to understand. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
395:A gentleman considers what is right; the vulgar consider what will pay. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
396:A happy union with wife and child is like the music of lutes and harps. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
397:A wise man has dignity without pride; a fool has pride without dignity. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
398:Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
399:Every thoughtful pin on pinterest has beauty. But not everyone can see. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
400:I am not worried that nobody knows me. I seek to become fit to be known ~ Confucius, #NFDB
401:If my mind be not engaged in worship, it is as though I worshipped not. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
402:I was complaining that I had no shoes till I met a man who had no feet. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
403:Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
404:Stars are holes in the sky from which the light of the infinite shines. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
405:Straight-forwardness, without the rules of propriety, becomes rudeness. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
406:The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it. —CONFUCIUS ~ Mark Divine, #NFDB
407:"Three things cannot long be hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth." ~ Confucius, #NFDB
408:To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
409:To study and not think is a waste. To think and not study is dangerous. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
410:Virtue is never left to stand alone. He who has it will have neighbors. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
411:When you breathe, you inspire, and when you do not breathe, you expire. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
412:A lion chased me up a tree, and I greatly enjoyed the view from the top. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
413:Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves. —CONFUCIUS ~ Sara Shepard, #NFDB
414:By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
415:Desire to have things done quickly prevents their being done thoroughly. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
416:Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
417:He who merely knows right principles is not equal to him who loves them. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
418:He who wished to secure the good of others, has already secured his own. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
419:He who wishes to secure the good of others, has already secured his own. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
420:I am not concerned that I am not known, I seek to be worthy to be known. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
421:I am not concerned that I am not known; I seek to be worthy to be known. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
422:It is easier today to triumph over evil habits than it will be tomorrow. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
423:It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
424:Not too isolated, not too many relationships, the middle, that's wisdom. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
425:Nowhere and in no situation is the sage dissatisfied with his condition. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
426:Question attentively, then meditate at leisure over what you have heard. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
427:The only people who cannot change are the most wise and the most stupid. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
428:"There is only one thing in life which never changes, and it is change." ~ Confucius, #NFDB
429:The superior man is distressed by his want of ability. ~ Confucius, Analects, 15:18, #NFDB
430:A legendary horse is praised not for its strength, but for its Integrity. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
431:Cultivate the root; the leaves and branches will take care of themselves. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
432:Heaven sends down its good and evil symbols and wise men act accordingly. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
433:He who crosses the ocean twice without washing is a dirty double crosser. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
434:If a man be under the influence of anger his conduct will not be correct. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
435:If an urn lacks the characteristics of an urn, how can we call it an urn? ~ Confucius, #NFDB
436:It's only in winter that the pine and cypress are known to be evergreens. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
437:I want you to be everything that's you, deep at the center of your being. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
438:Of all that Heaven produces and nourishes, there is none so great as man. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
439:On peut obliger le peuple à obéir. On ne peut pas le forcer à comprendre. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
440:People with virtue must speak out; People who speak are not all virtuous. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
441:They must often change who would remain constant in happiness and wisdom. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
442:When three persons work together, each can be the teacher in some aspects ~ Confucius, #NFDB
443:Which demands a lot of himself and some others, will be free from hatred. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
444:Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
445:Confucius says to be wrong is nothing unless you continue to remember it. ~ Eve Jagger, #NFDB
446:Cowardice is knowing what you should do and then not doing it. Confucius ~ Leo Tolstoy, #NFDB
447:Everyone calls his son his son, whether he has talents or has not talents. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
448:Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
449:If one is guided by profit in one's actions, one will incur much ill will. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
450:Lernen und nicht denken ist nichtig, denken und nicht lernen ist ermüdend. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
451:To see what is right and not to do it is want of courage, or of principle. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
452:We have two lives, and the second begins when we realize we only have one. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
453:Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts? ~ Confucius, #NFDB
454:You will never know how sharp a sword is unless it's drawn from its sheath ~ Confucius, #NFDB
455:Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves, Confucius said. ~ Ian McEwan, #NFDB
456:If you are the smartest person in the room, then you are in the wrong room. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
457:Is virtue a thing remote? I wish to be virtuous, and lo! Virtue is at hand. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
458:It is not possible for one to teach others who cannot teach his own family. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
459:Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
460:The Man who says he can, and the man who says he can not.. Are both correct ~ Confucius, #NFDB
461:The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
462:Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
463:Who keeps the old akindle and adds new knowledge is fitted to be a teacher. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
464:A man without persistence will never make a good shaman or a good physician. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
465:Even four harnessed horses cannot bring imprudent words back into the mouth. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
466:He was a man, take him for all in all, I shall not look upon his like again. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
467:He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
468:I live in a very small house, but my windows look out on a very large world. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
469:It doesn't make a difference how gradually you go so long as you don't stop. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
470:Keep it simple and focus on what matters. Don't let yourself be overwhelmed. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
471:The really faithful lover of learning holds fast to the Good Way till death. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
472:The way out is through the door. Why is it that no one will use this method? ~ Confucius, #NFDB
473:Those who break down the dikes will themselves be drowned in the inundation. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
474:To study and at times practice what one has learned, is this not a pleasure? ~ Confucius, #NFDB
475:Treue gegen sich selbst und Gütigkeit gegen Andere: Darin ist alles befasst. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
476:We are so busy doing the urgent that we don't have time to do the important. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
477:A good man does not make a warrior, just as good steel does not go for nails. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
478:Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.
~ Confucius,#NFDB
479:Elige un trabajo que te guste y no tendrás que trabajar ni un día de tu vida. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
480:How should I know anything about another world when I know so little of this? ~ Confucius, #NFDB
481:If I am virtuous and worthy, for whom should I not maintain a proper concern? ~ Confucius, #NFDB
482:If things far away don’t concern you, you’ll soon mourn things close at hand. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
483:It is the law of nature that woman should be held under the dominance of man. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
484:I transmit but do not create. I place my trust in the teachings of antiquity. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
485:Learning without thinking is useless. Thinking without learning is dangerous. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
486:Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
487:Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
488:The gentleman sees what is right while the small man sees what is profitable. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
489:When I walk along with two others, from at least one I will be able to learn. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
490:When there are duties to perform [true] servants and sons serve their labors. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
491:At fifteen my mind was directed to study, and at thirty I knew where to stand. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
492:Confucius said,"To know that you don't know is the beginning of knowing. ~ Thich Nhat Hanh, #NFDB
493:Đừng chỉ trích mái nhà hàng xóm nhiều tuyết trong khi cửa nhà mình không sạch. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
494:In speaking, it is best to be clear and say just enough to convey the meaning. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
495:Let your words corres-pond with your actions and your actions with your words. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
496:Se regarder scrupuleusement soi-même, ne regarder que discrètement les autres. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
497:The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
498:The noble minded act before speak, then they speak according to their actions. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
499:To know what is the right thing to do and not do it is the greatest cowardice. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
500:We should keep the dead before our eyes, and honor them as though still living ~ Confucius, #NFDB
501:Wisdom is worried for being slow in its speech and expeditious in its actions. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
502:A common man marvels at uncommon things. A wise man marvels at the commonplace. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
503:A youth, when at home, should be filial, and, abroad, respectful to his elders. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
504:Better than the one who knows what is right is the one who loves what is right. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
505:Ceremonies are the first thing to be attended to in the practice of government. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
506:Clever talk and domineering manner have little to with being a Man at His Best. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
507:Confucius say," Gideon ad-libbed, "man with hand in pocket feel cocky all day. ~ Sylvia Day, #NFDB
508:If what one has to say is not better than silence, then one should keep silent. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
509:It does not matter how slowly you go, so long as you do not stop. Confucius ~ Penney Peirce, #NFDB
510:It is better to light one small candle of gratitude than to curse the darkness. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
511:Love is like a spice. It can sweeten your life - however, it can spoil it, too. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
512:Reviewing what you have learned and learning anew, you are fit to be a teacher. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
513:The contrived language and the flattering attitude rarely come with the virtue. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
514:The Master said, “The gentleman does not serve as a vessel.”
(Analects 2.12) ~ Confucius,#NFDB
515:The superior man, when resting in safety, does not forget that danger may come. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
516:You must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
517:Fine words and an insinuating appearance are seldom associated with true virtue. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
518:Gentlemen should not waste their time on trivial games -- they should play go[3] ~ Confucius, #NFDB
519:Happiness does not consist in having what you want, but in wanting what you have ~ Confucius, #NFDB
520:He who cannot describe the problem will never find the solution to that problem. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
521:He who flatters a man is his enemy. he who tells him of his faults is his maker. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
522:If names be not correct, language is not in accordance with the truth of things. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
523:If you don't know the life yet, how could be possible for you to know the death? ~ Confucius, #NFDB
524:Knowledge without practice is useless. Practice without knowledge is dangerous. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
525:Only by perfect virtue can the perfect path, in all its courses, be made a fact. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
526:The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trial.
~ Confucius,#NFDB
527:The scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
528:A man who does not think and plan long ahead will find trouble right at his door. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
529:A man who reviews the old so as to find out the new is qualified to teach others. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
530:as Confucius says, “Settle one difficulty and you keep a hundred away. ~ Norman Vincent Peale, #NFDB
531:Give a man a fish, feed home for a day. Teach a man to fish, feed for a lifetime. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
532:If a man be without the virtues proper to humanity, what has he to do with music? ~ Confucius, #NFDB
533:If I do not participate in the sacrifice, it is as if I did not sacrifice at all. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
534:Love makes a spot beautiful: who chooses not to dwell in love, has he got wisdom? ~ Confucius, #NFDB
535:There is never a case when the root is in order and yet the branches are in order ~ Confucius, #NFDB
536:Those who are firm, enduring, simple and unpretentious are the nearest to virtue. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
537:To know everything is to know nothing, but to know nothing is to know everything. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
538:To know is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
539:What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
540:Al cielo non chiedo altro che una casa piena di libri e un giardino pieno di fiori ~ Confucius, #NFDB
541:Aquellos de espíritu superior entienden la justicia. Los ordinarios, el beneficio. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
542:Examine si ce que tu promets est juste et possible, car la promesse est une dette. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
543:If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
544:If a superior man abandon virtue, how can he fulfil the requirements of that name? ~ Confucius, #NFDB
545:Justice is like the north star, which is fixed, and all the rest revolve about it. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
546:Mankind differs from the animals only by a little and most people throw that away. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
547:Omul care nu se gândeste sau nu prevede lucrurile îndepartate are necazuri aproape ~ Confucius, #NFDB
548:Rather than caring about whether or not you are known, strive to be worth knowing. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
549:To be poor without murmuring is difficult. To be rich without being proud is easy. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
550:What you know, you know, what you don't know, you don't know. This is true wisdom. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
551:Be strict with yourself but least reproachful of others and complaint is kept afar. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
552:Learn, as if never overtaking your object, and yet as if apprehensive of losing it. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
553:Study without reflection is a waste of time; reflection without study is dangerous. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
554:There is no body but eats and drinks. But they are few who can distinguish flavors. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
555:The Superior Man is aware of Righteousness, the inferior man is aware of advantage. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
556:Be aroused by poetry; structure yourself with propriety, refine yourself with music. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
557:Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.” —Confucius ~ Nicholas Sansbury Smith, #NFDB
558:Character is the backbone of our human culture. Music is the flowering of character. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
559:Humankind differs from the animals only by a little and most people throw that away. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
560:In your promises cleave to what is right, And you will be able to fulfill your word. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
561:Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
562:There are three unfilial acts: the greatest of these is the failure to produce sons. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
563:The superior man is satisfied and composed; the mean man is always full of distress. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
564:Waste begets self-will; thrift begets meanness: but better be mean than self-willed. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
565:When music and courtesy are better understood and appreciated, there will be no war. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
566:A lack of patience in trifling matters might lead to the disruption of great project. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
567:If a man in the morning hear the right way, he may die in the evening without regret. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
568:The noble-minded are calm and steady. Little people are forever fussing and fretting. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
569:To learn and from time to time to apply what one has learned - isn't that a pleasure? ~ Confucius, #NFDB
570:To learn without thinking is labour in vain, to think without learning is desolation. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
571:A disciple having asked for a definition of charity, the Master said LOVE ONE ANOTHER. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
572:A ruthless man extends his ruthlessness from those he does not love to those he loves. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
573:He has not lived in vain who dies the day he is told about the Way.”
― Confucius ~ Mario Kfoury,#NFDB
574:Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.
- Confucius ~ Confucius,#NFDB
575:Only after Winter comes do we know that the pine and the cypress are the last to fade. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
576:Past scholars studied to improve themselves; Today's scholars study to impress others. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
577:Some may study side by side, and yet be asunder when they come to the logic of things. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
578:The gentleman understands what is moral. The small man understands what is profitable. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
579:The Master said: ‘Artful speech and an ingratiating demeanour rarely accompany virtue. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
580:The Master said, 'Subsidiarity.' Tsze-Kung said, 'What the hell are you talking about? ~ Confucius, #NFDB
581:The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
582:Those who cannot forgive others break the bridge over which they themselves must pass. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
583:When we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
584:A man should practice what he preaches, but a man should also preach what he practices. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
585:Even if people do not know what real kindness is, they nonetheless have it within them. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
586:I have yet to meet a man as fond of high moral conduct as he is of outward appearances. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
587:It cannot be when the root is neglected that what springs from it will be well ordered. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
588:Learn as if you were not reaching your goal and as though you were scared of missing it ~ Confucius, #NFDB
589:Sincerity is the end and beginning of things; without sincerity there would be nothing. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
590:The gentleman is dignified but not arrogant. The small man is arrogant but not digified ~ Confucius, #NFDB
591:The path may not be left for an instant. If it could be left, it would not be the path. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
592:The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his actions. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
593:The virtuous man is driven by responsibility, the non-virtuous man is driven by profit. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
594:The wise are free from perplexities; the virtuous from anxiety; and the bold from fear. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
595:Una voz fuerte no puede competir con una voz clara, aunque esta sea un simple murmullo. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
596:A good man will certainly also possess courage; but a brave man is not necessarily good. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
597:A man who has committed a mistake and does not correct it is committing another mistake. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
598:By gaining the people, the kingdom is gained; by losing the people, the kingdom is lost. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
599:Confucius say if man want to grow one row of corn, first must shovel one ton of shit. ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
600:Death and life have their determined appointments; riches and honors depend upon heaven. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
601:Don’t complain about the snow on your neighbor’s roof when your own doorstep is unclean. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
602:Don't worry about being acknowledged by others; worry about failing to acknowledge them. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
603:Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance.” The man quoted Confucius? ~ Kerrigan Byrne, #NFDB
604:Tell me and I will forget, show me and I may remember; involve me and I will understand. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
605:The demands that a great man makes are on himself; those of a petty man are upon others. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
606:There is one word which may serve as a rule of practice for all one's life -reciprocity. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
607:The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
608:Wenn man noch nicht den Menschen dienen kann, wie sollte man den Geistern dienen können? ~ Confucius, #NFDB
609:A man may not transgress the bounds of major morals, but may make errors in minor morals. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
610:Avant d'ouvrir la bouche, assure-toi que ce que tu vas dire est plus beau que le silence. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
611:Expect much from yourself and little from others and you will avoid incurring resentments ~ Confucius, #NFDB
612:He who is concerned only with the purity of his own life ruins the great human relations. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
613:He who studies but does not think is lost; he who thinks but does not study is dangerous. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
614:Not feeling compassion for a stranger is like not feeling when one's foot has caught fire ~ Confucius, #NFDB
615:The Master is cordial yet stern, awe-inspiring yet not fierce and respectful yet at ease. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
616:To be truly happy and contented, you must let go of what it means to be happy or content. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
617:When respect is shown according to what is proper, one keeps far from shame and disgrace. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
618:Among his own country folk Confucius wore a homely look, like one that has no word to say. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
619:Attack the evil that is within yourself, rather than attacking the evil that is in others. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
620:cautiously, you avoid trouble. See all that you can – then, if you forget the perilous and ~ Confucius, #NFDB
621:If you did not do so for the sake of riches,You must have done so for the sake of novelty. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
622:On a deux vies et la deuxième commence le jour ou l'on se rend compte qu'on n'en a qu'une. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
623:The superior man * * * in regard to his speech * * * is anxious that it should be sincere. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
624:When you are laboring for others, let it be with the same zeal as if it were for yourself. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
625:Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
626:Be loyal and trustworthy. Do not befriend anyone who is lower than yourself in this regard. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
627:Don't worry if people don't recognize your merits; worry that you may not recognize theirs. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
628:For benefits return benefits; for injuries return justice without any admixture of revenge. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
629:If in the morning you have heard the voice of celestial reason, in the evening you can die. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
630:Study as though you cannot catch up to it, and as though you fear you are going to lose it. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
631:The highest kind of man is the one who does before talking and practices what he professes. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
632:A conversa impregnada de vaidade e o pretensiosismo são raramente compatíveis com a virtude. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
633:Cuando veas un hombre bueno, trata de imitarle; cuando veas a uno malo, examínate a ti mismo ~ Confucius, #NFDB
634:Do not worry if others do not understand you. Instead worry if you do not understand others. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
635:Is it not indeed a pleasure to acquire knowledge and constantly to exercise oneself therein? ~ Confucius, #NFDB
636:Man is born with uprightness. If one loses it, he will be lucky if he escapes with his life. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
637:Not knowing life, how can we know death? Why talk of spirits when you do not understand men? ~ Confucius, #NFDB
638:One who will study for three years. Without thought of reward. Would be hard indeed to find. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
639:Reading without thinking will confuse you.Thinking without reading will place you in danger. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
640:Remember what Confucius say: ‘Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves. ~ Gregg Hurwitz, #NFDB
641:The people may be made to follow a path of action but they may not be made to understand it. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
642:The superior person gathers his weapons together in order to provide against the unforeseen. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
643:The true gentleman does not preach what he practices till he has practiced what he preaches. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
644:Who can (make) the muddy water (clear)? Let it be still, and it will gradually become clear. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
645:Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of man. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
646:Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
647:An orchid in a deep forest sends out its fragrance even if no one is around to appreciate it. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
648:Every house guest brings you happiness. Some when they arrive, and some when they are leaving ~ Confucius, #NFDB
649:Give me a few more years so that I am studying at fifty, and surely I may avoid major errors. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
650:Ji Wenzi always thought thrice before acting. Hearing this the Master said, "Twice is enough. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
651:Knowing it does not compare with loving it; loving it does not compare with delighting in it. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
652:The injury of prodigality leads to this, that he who will not economize will have to agonize. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
653:There are not the weeds the ones that drown the good seed, but the negligence of the peasant. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
654:When a man feels the difficulty of doing, can he be other than cautious and slow in speaking? ~ Confucius, #NFDB
655:You judge yourself by what you think you can achieve, others judge you by what have achieved. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
656:Before you embark on a journey of revenge, you should dig two graves. Or so Confucius said. ~ Lili Valente, #NFDB
657:Confucius: If you sit by the river for long enough, the body of your enemy will float by. ~ Salman Rushdie, #NFDB
658:Exige beaucoup de toi-même et attend peu des autres.
Beaucoup d'ennuis te seront épargnés. ~ Confucius,#NFDB
659:He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger ~ Confucius, #NFDB
660:Labour to purify thy thoughts. If thou hast no evil thoughts, thou shalt commit no evil deeds. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
661:The hardest thing of all is to find a black cat in a dark room, especially if there is no cat. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
662:To know what is first and what is last will lead near to what is taught in the Great Learning. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
663:A good man is not mine to see. Could I see a man possessed of constancy, that would satisfy me. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
664:A man is great not because he hasn't failed; a man is great because failure hasn't stopped him. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
665:He who learns but does not think, is lost. He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
666:If I raise one corner for someone and he cannot come back with the other three, I do not go on. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
667:The green reed which bends in the wind is stronger than the mighty oak which breaks in a storm. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
668:The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
669:The perfecting of one's self is the fundamental base of all progress and all moral development. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
670:When young, beware of fighting; when strong, beware of sex; and when old, beware of possession. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
671:Among the appliances to transform the people, sound and appearances are but trivial influences. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
672:Chi Wen Tzu always thought three times before taking action. Twice would have been quite enough. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
673:I am not bothered by the fact that I am not understood. I am bothered when I do not know others. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
674:Perfection is the end and the beginning of all things, and without perfection they could not be. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
675:The man who asks a question is a fool for a minute, the man who does not ask is a fool for life. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
676:The superior man sets his person at rest before he moves; he composes his mind before he speaks. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
677:Think no vice so small that you may commit it, and no virtue so small that you may over look it. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
678:To be in one's own heart in kindly sympathy with all things; this is the nature of righteousness ~ Confucius, #NFDB
679:To know it is not as good as to love it, and to love it is not as good as to take delight in it. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
680:When you see a good man, think of emulating him; when you see a bad man, examine your own heart. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
681:A father's and a mother's age must be borne in mind; with joy on the one hand, fear on the other. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
682:Don’t grieve when people fail to recognize your ability. Grieve for your lack of ability instead. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
683:Exemplary persons are steadfast in the face of adversity, while petty persons are engulfed by it. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
684:Let a man be stimulated by poetry, established by the rules of propriety, and perfected by music. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
685:Many seek happiness higher than men; others beneath him. But happiness is the same height as man. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
686:Music is the one thing in which there is no use trying to deceive others or make false pretenses. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
687:Shall I tell you what knowledge is? It is to know both what one knows and what one does not know. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
688:There is nothing more visible than what is secret, and nothing more manifest than what is minute. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
689:The scholar does not consider gold and jade to be precious treasures, but loyalty and good faith. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
690:To find the Tao, there is nowhere you need to search. If it is not inside you, it is not the Tao. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
691:To prefer it is better than to only know it. To delight in it is better than merely to prefer it. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
692:When nature exceeds culture, we have the rustic. When culture exceeds nature, we have the pedant. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
693:A wise man seeks by music to strengthen his soul: the thoughtless one uses it to stifle his fears. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
694:Being strong does not mean that you never fall down, but that whenever you fall, you get up again. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
695:Be versed in ancient lore, and familiarize yourself with the modern; then may you become teachers. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
696:In antiquity men studied for their own sake; nowadays men study for the sake of impressing others. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
697:Knowing something is not as good as liking it. Liking something is not as good as rejoicing in it. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
698:The demands that good people make are upon themselves; Those that bad people make are upon others. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
699:The father who does not teach his son his duties is equally guilty with the son who neglects them. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
700:The great mountain must collapse, the mighty beam must break and the wise man wither like a plant. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
701:The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest; success only comes later. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
702:What the superior man seeks is in himself. What the mean man seeks is in others. ~ Confucius, Analects, 15:20, #NFDB
703:When you are ignorant about something, to know that you are ignorant about it - that is knowledge. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
704:Confucius say... politician is one who shakes your hand before elections and your confidence after. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
705:Do not answer the person whose questions are vile. Do not question a person whose answers are vile. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
706:He that rules by mind is like the north star, steady in his seat, whilst the stars all bend to him. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
707:Look for an occupation that you like, and you will not need to labor for a single day in your life. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
708:Study as if you have not reached your goal - hold it as if you were afraid of losing what you have. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
709:There is nothing impossible in all the world except that the heart of man is wanting in resolution. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
710:The superior person is calm and composed; the lesser person is continuously worried and distressed. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
711:To do to men what we would have them do to ourselves is what one may call the teaching of humanity. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
712:Aspire to the principal, behave with virtue, abide by benevolence, and immerse yourself in the arts. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
713:Don't be concerned that you have no position; be concerned how you may fit yourself to occupy one. . ~ Confucius, #NFDB
714:If you expect great things of yourself and demand little of others, you’ll keep resentment far away. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
715:I will not be concerned at other men's not knowing me;I will be concerned at my own want of ability. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
716:Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
717:The general of a large army may be defeated, but you cannot defeat the determined mind of a peasant. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
718:The noble-minded are all-encompassing, not stuck in doctrines. Little people are stuck in doctrines. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
719:There is an old proverb in our kingdom: “He who seeks revenge should dig two graves.” (Confucius) ~ Natasha Ngan, #NFDB
720:The virtuous will be sure to speak uprightly; but those whose speech is upright may not be virtuous. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
721:Things that are done, it is needless to speak about...things that are past, it is needless to blame. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
722:To govern is to correct. If you set an example by being correct, who would dare to remain incorrect? ~ Confucius, #NFDB
723:We take greater pains to persuade others that we are happy than in endeavoring to think so ourselves ~ Confucius, #NFDB
724:He who is harmony with Nature hits the mark without effort and apprehends the truth without thinking. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
725:If you reflect within yourself and find nothing to be ashamed of, how could you have anxiety or fear. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
726:The demands that good people make are upon themselves;
Those that bad people make are upon others. ~ Confucius,#NFDB
727:The Master was entirely free of four faults: arbitrariness, inflexibility, rigidity, and selfishness. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
728:The superior man has a dignified ease without pride. The mean man has pride without a dignified ease. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
729:The Superior Man is all-embracing and not partial. The inferior man is partial and not all-embracing. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
730:The wheel of fortune turns round incessantly, and who can say to himself, I shall today be uppermost. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
731:When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
732:A man whose strength gives out collapses along the course. In your case you set the limits beforehand. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
733:Don't be concerned about others not appreciating you. Be concerned about your not appreciating others. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
734:The archer who misses his mark does not blame the target. He stops, corrects himself and shoots again. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
735:The Master was entirely free from four things: prejudice, foregone conclusions, obstinacy, and egoism. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
736:The sage's quest is for himself, the quest of the-ignorant for other than himself. ~ Confucius, “Lun-Yu,” II 15.20, #NFDB
737:Clever talk can confound the workings of virtue, just as small impatiences can confound great projects. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
738:I am not one who was born with great wisdom. I love the ancients and diligently seek wisdom among them. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
739:¿Son las virtudes algo lejano? En cuanto quiero ser virtuoso, inmediatamente estoy alcanzando la virtud ~ Confucius, #NFDB
740:Surely it is the maxim of loving-kindness: Do not unto others that you would not have them do unto you. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
741:As Confucius says, under some circumstances murder can be forgiven; but unreasonableness never is. ~ John Lanchester, #NFDB
742:A youth is to be regarded with respect. How do we know that his future will not be equal to our present? ~ Confucius, #NFDB
743:Gentlemen cherish worth; the vulgar cherish dirt. Gentlemen trust in justice; the vulgar trust in favor. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
744:Slater soaks into the mind as water into low and marshy places, where it becomes stagnant and offensive. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
745:When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.
~ Confucius,#NFDB
746:As the water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it, so a wise man adapts himself to circumstances. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
747:The superior man does what is proper to the station in which he is; he does not desire to go beyond this. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
748:The superior man is universally minded and no partisan. The inferior man is a partisan and not universal. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
749:Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established ~ Confucius, #NFDB
750:You can successfully force people to follow a certain course, but you cannot force them to understand it. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
751:A good man does not worry about not being known by others, but rather is concerned about not knowing them. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
752:Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
753:The noble-minded worry about their lack of ability, not about people’s failure to recognize their ability. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
754:A blemish may be removed from a diamond by careful polishing, but evil words once spoken cannot be effaced. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
755:Confucius said, “Before embarking upon a journey of revenge, dig two graves.” I planned to dig seven. ~ Lili St Germain, #NFDB
756:Fix your mind on truth, hold firm to virtue, rely on loving kindness, and find your recreation in the Arts. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
757:It is impossible to arrive at the summit of the mountain without passing through rough and difficult paths. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
758:It is the obligation of the ruler to continually renew himself in order to renew the people by his example. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
759:Make faithfulness and truth thy masters: have no friends unlike thyself: be not ashamed to mend thy faults. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
760:St. Thomas is as practical and plain and reasonable in ethics as Aristotle, or Confucius, or your uncle. ~ Peter Kreeft, #NFDB
761:There is good government when those who are near are made happy, and when those who are afar are attracted. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
762:Wisdom, humanity & courage, these three are universal virtues. The way by which they are practiced are one. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
763:Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves, Confucius said. Revenge unstitches civilisation. ~ Ian McEwan, #NFDB
764:Charity is the affection that impels us to sacrifice ourselves to humankind as if it were one being with us. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
765:Every truth has four corners: as a teacher I give you one corner, and it is for you to find the other three. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
766:How can you love people without encouraging them? And how can you be loyal to people without educating them. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
767:Sincerity is that whereby self-completion is effected, and its way is that by which man must direct himself. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
768:There is the love of knowing without the love of learning; the beclouding here leads to dissipation of mind. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
769:The wheel of fortune turns incessantly round, and who can say within himself, I shall today be uppermost?
~ Confucius,#NFDB
770:A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives roses. If you are generous, you will gain everything. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
771:Every truth has four corners: as a teacher I give you one corner, and it is for you to find the other three. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
772:If you observe in all your acts the respect of yourself and of others, then shall you not be despised of any. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
773:If you want happiness for a year, inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime, help someone else. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
774:Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous. ~ Confucius, Analects, Book II, Chapter XV., #NFDB
775:The Master said, "A true teacher is one who, keeping the past alive, is also able to understand the present." ~ Confucius, #NFDB
776:There are few men under heaven who can love and see the defects, or hate and see the excellence of an object. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
777:There is one word which may serve as a rule of practice for all one's life - reciprocity. ~ Confucius#confucius #kindness, #NFDB
778:Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves, Confucius said. Revenge unstitches a civilisation. ~ Ian McEwan, #NFDB
779:In old days men studied for the sake of self-improvement; nowadays men study in order to impress other people. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
780:Kebanggaan kita yang terbesar adalah bukang tidak pernah gagal, tetapi bangkit kembali setiap kali kita jatuh. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
781:Listen widely to remove your doubts and be careful when speaking about the rest and your mistakes will be few. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
782:The main object of conciliation lies in reaching a solution to a case based upon morals and with a warm heart. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
783:Wouldst thou know if a people be well governed, or if its laws be good or bad, examine the music it practices. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
784:Ask yourself constantly, "What is the right thing to do?" Behave toward everyone as if receiving a great guest. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
785:Don’t complain about the snow on your neighbor’s roof,” said Confucius, “when your own doorstep is unclean. ~ Dale Carnegie, #NFDB
786:Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.Men's natures are alike, it is their habits that carry them far apart. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
787:If I am building a mountain and stop before the last basketful of earth is placed on the summit, I have failed. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
788:The nobler type of man is broad-minded and not prejudiced. The inferior man is prejudiced and not broad-minded. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
789:The people may be put into the way they should go, though they may not be put into the way of understanding it. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
790:When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don’t adjust the goals, adjust the actions.” -Confucius ~ Sean Patrick, #NFDB
791:Without that innate sense of human worth, a man cannot long endure adversity, nor can he long enjoy prosperity. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
792:You know what Confucius said?” “Remind me.” “ ‘Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.’ ~ Marisha Pessl, #NFDB
793:Confucius once said that a bear could not fart at the North Pole without causing a big wind in Chicago. ~ Philip Jose Farmer, #NFDB
794:Does Heaven ever speak? The four seasons come and go, and all creatures thrive and grow. Does Heaven ever speak! ~ Confucius, #NFDB
795:He who requires much from himself and little from others, will keep himself from being the object of resentment. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
796:There is nothing more real than what cannot be seen and there is nothing more certain than what cannot be heard. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
797:The virtue of a man who has attained to the height of perfection, extends even to a foreknowledge of the future. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
798:When you see a good man, try to emulate his example, and when you see a bad man, search yourself for his faults. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
799:You know what Confucius said?"
"Remind me".
"Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves ~ Marisha Pessl,#NFDB
800:A gentleman can withstand hardships; it is only the small man who, when submitted to them, is swept off his feet. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
801:everyone alive on the planet today is related both to Confucius (551–479 BC) and to Nefertiti (1370–1330 BC). So ~ John Lloyd, #NFDB
802:If a man keeps cherishing his old knowledge so as continually to be acquiring new, he may be a teacher of others. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
803:In a district of ten families, there must be someone as honorable and sincere as I, but none as fond of learning. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
804:It is when those who are not strong enough have made some moderate amount of progress that they fail and give up. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
805:The teaching of our master consists solely in this, to be upright in heart and to love one’s neighbour as oneself ~ Confucius, #NFDB
806:When superiors are fond of showing their humanity, inferiors try to outstrip one another in their practice of it. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
807:By the ruler's cultivation of his own character there is set up the example of the course which all should pursue. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
808:How transcendent is the virtue of the middle conduct! Rare for a long time has been its practice among the people. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
809:Know what you know and know that you don't know what you don't know — that is the characteristic of one who knows. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
810:¿Me preguntas por qué compro arroz y flores?
Compro arroz para vivir y flores para tener algo por lo que vivir. ~ Confucius,#NFDB
811:Possessed of courage but devoid of morality, a superior man will make trouble while a small man will be a brigand. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
812:The man of wisdom is never of two minds; the man of benevolence never worries; the man of courage is never afraid. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
813:The superior man is anxious lest he should not get the truth; he is not anxious lest poverty should come upon him. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
814:To conceal resentment against a person, and appear friendly with him;— Tso Ch'iu-ming was ashamed of such conduct. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
815:When wealth is centralized, the people are dispersed. When wealth is distributed, the people are brought together. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
816:Even if I could, I would not exahnge their virtues for my own. And that is why they are intent on learning from me. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
817:Everything has its beauty but not everyone sees it. To see it a person only needs to imagine how it could be worse. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
818:It is when those who are not strong enough have made some moderate amount of progress that they fail and give up... ~ Confucius, #NFDB
819:The nobler sort of man emphasizes the good qualities in others, and does not accentuate the bad. The inferior does. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
820:Who is the superior man ? It is he who first puts his words in practice and then speaks in agreement with his acts. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
821:All change is a miracle to contemplate; but it is a miracle which is taking place every instant. Confucius ~ Henry David Thoreau, #NFDB
822:Conduct thyself always with the same prudence as though thou went observed by ten eyes and pointed at by ten fingers ~ Confucius, #NFDB
823:Knowledge is merely brilliance in organization of ideas and not wisdom. The truly wise person goes beyond knowledge. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
824:Man is born for uprightness. If a man lose his uprightness and yet live, his escape from death is mere good fortune. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
825:The Master said, “If your conduct is determined solely by considerations of profit you will arouse great resentment. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
826:The Way is not for, but from, man; if we take the Way as something superhuman, beyond man, this is not the real Way. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
827:Virtuous people often revenge themselves for the constraints to which they submit by the boredom which they inspire. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
828:Who expects to be able to go out of a house except by the door? How is it then that no one follows this Way of ours? ~ Confucius, #NFDB
829:He who rules by moral force is like the pole star, which remains in place while all the lesser stars do homage to it. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
830:If a man has no humaneness what can his propriety be like? If a man has no humaneness what can his happiness be like? ~ Confucius, #NFDB
831:If a man is not good, what has he to do with the rules of propriety? If he is not good, what has he to do with music? ~ Confucius, #NFDB
832:In vain I have looked for a single man capable of seeing his own faults and bringing the charge home against himself. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
833:It is only when mosquito land on your balls that you realize there is a way to solve problems without using violence. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
834:No matter how busy you think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
835:See a person's means ... Observe his motives. Examine that in which he rests. How can a person conceal his character? ~ Confucius, #NFDB
836:The expectations of life depend upon diligence the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
837:The Master said, “The gentleman understands what is right, whereas the petty man understands profit.” (Analects 4.16) ~ Confucius, #NFDB
838:To take what you know for what you know, and what you do not know for what you do not know, that is knowledge indeed. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
839:When the multitude detests a man, inquiry is necessary; when the multitude likes a man, inquiry is equally necessary. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
840:When you see a worthy person, endeavor to emulate him. When you see an unworthy person, then examine your inner self. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
841:Wisdom delights in water; love delights in hills. Wisdom is stirring; love is quiet. Wisdom is merry; love grows old. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
842:Don’t complain about the snow on your neighbour’s roof,” said Confucius, “when your own doorstep is unclean.” When ~ Dale Carnegie, #NFDB
843:Let every man consider virtue as what devolves on himself. He may not yield the performance of it even to his teacher. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
844:Love should start from people close to us, then be extended to other people, to strangers, and eventually to the world ~ Confucius, #NFDB
845:The commander of a mighty army can be captured, but the aspiration of an ordinary man can never be seized. —Confucius ~ Evan Osnos, #NFDB
846:The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
847:The gentleman is calm and at ease. The gentleman is dignified but not proud; the small man is proud but not dignified. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
848:There is one single thread binding my way together...the way of the Master consists in doing one's best...that is all. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
849:The Three Armies can be deprived of their commanding officer, but even a common man cannot be deprived of his purpose. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
850:A person of character takes as much trouble to discover what is right as the lesser men take to discover what will pay. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
851:Excessive (population) growth may reduce output per worker, repress levels of living for the masses and engender strife ~ Confucius, #NFDB
852:If I hold up one corner of a square and the student cannot workout the other three for himself, I won't go any further. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
853:If you look into your own heart, and you find nothing wrong there, what is there to worry about? What is there to fear? ~ Confucius, #NFDB
854:In a State, pecuniary gain is not to be considered to be prosperity, but its prosperity will be found in righteousness. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
855:Lord Chi Wen thought three times before taking any action. When the Master heard this, he said: Twice is plenty enough. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
856:The person who is not strong enough gives up at the halfway point - but you are limiting yourself before even starting. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
857:To know that one knows what one knows, and to know that one doesn't know what one doesn't know, there lies true wisdom. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
858:Being in humaneness is good. If we select other goodness and thus are far apart from humaneness, how can we be the wise? ~ Confucius, #NFDB
859:Learn advidly. Question it repeatedly. Analyze it carefully. Then put what you have learned into practice intelligently. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
860:Look at the means which a man employs, consider his motives, observe his pleasures. A man simply cannot conceal himself! ~ Confucius, #NFDB
861:No matter how busy you make think you are you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance ~ Confucius, #NFDB
862:The man of wisdom is never of two minds;
the man of benevolence never worries;
the man of courage is never afraid. ~ Confucius,#NFDB
863:The Master said, “The gentleman understands what is right, whereas the petty man understands profit.”
(Analects 4.16) ~ Confucius,#NFDB
864:Confucius, who had said it was better not to know about ghosts and gods, but rather to focus on the world we lived in. ~ Yangsze Choo, #NFDB
865:He who needs only coarse food, water and drink, and as pillow his folded arms will find happiness without further search. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
866:I do not want a friend who smiles when I smile, who weeps when I weep; for my shadow in the pool can do better than that. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
867:No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
868:The superior man bends his attention to what is radical. That being established, all practical courses naturally grow up. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
869:Wenn du weißt, behaupte, dass du es weißt. Und wenn du etwas nicht weißt, gib zu, dass du es nicht weißt. Das ist Wissen. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
870:At seventy, I could follow the dictates of my own heart; for what I desired no longer overstepped the boundaries of right. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
871:Care not for want of place; care for thy readiness to fill one. Care not for being unknown, but seek to be worthy of note. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
872:If there were one word that could act as a standard of conduct for one's entire life, perhaps it would be 'thoughtfulness. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
873:The Master said, “The gentleman harmonizes [he] without being an echo. The petty man echoes [tong] and does not harmonize. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
874:The superior man is easy to serve, but difficult to please ... The inferior man is difficult to serve, but easy to please. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
875:They who know the truth are not equal to those who love it, and they who love it are not equal to those who delight in it. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
876:those who understands is not better than those who appreciates, those who appreciates is not better than those who enjoys. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
877:Tsze-kung asked, "What do you think of me?" The Master said, "You are a pot." "What sort of pot?" "A precious ritual vase. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
878:A superior man in dealing with the world is not for anything or against anything. He follows righteousness as the standard. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
879:The man of noble mind seeks to achieve the good in others and not their evil. The little-minded man is the reverse of this. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
880:There are three things against which the wise man guards: lust when young, quarrels when strong, and covetousness when old. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
881:Give a bowl of rice to a man and you will feed him for a day. Teach him how to grow his own rice and you will save his life. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
882:In his dealings with the world, the gentleman is not invariably for or against anything. He is on the side of what is moral. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
883:Speak the truth, do not yield to anger; give, if thou art asked for little; by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
884:The commander of the forces of a large State may be carried off, but the will of even a common man cannot be taken from him. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
885:Unify your attention. Do not listen with your ears, but with your mind. Do not listen with your mind but with your essence. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
886:Watch their actions, observe their motives, examine wherein they dwell content; won't you know what kind of person they are? ~ Confucius, #NFDB
887:With coarse grain to eat, with water to drink, and my bended arm for a pillow: I still have joy in the midst of these things ~ Confucius, #NFDB
888:A gentleman does not promote a man on account of what he says; nor does he reject sayings, because the speaker is what he is. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
889:The superior man, in the world, does not set his mind either for anything, or against anything; what is right he will follow. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
890:The superior person is in harmony, but does not follow the crowd. The lesser person follows the crowd, but is not in harmony. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
891:If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
892:The one who was born a genius can't win against the one who tries, and the one who tries can't win against the one who enjoys. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
893:To see high merit and be unable to raise it to office, to raise it but not to give such promotion precedence, is just destiny. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
894:When you see a good person, think of becoming like her/him. When you see someone not so good, reflect on your own weak points. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
895:You want to know of Death? Well, I shall save my breath. When you know Life, why then, We'll talk of Death again. Confucius ~ Amit Goswami, #NFDB
896:Do not unto another that you would hot have him do unto you. Thou needest this law alone. It is the foundation of all the rest. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
897:The noble-minded encourage what is beautiful in people and discourage what is ugly in them. Little people do just the opposite. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
898:The superior soul asks nothing from any but itself. The vulgar and unmeritable man asks everything of others. ~ Confucius: Lia yu II XV. 20, #NFDB
899:With coarse rice to eat, with water to drink, and my bent arm for a pillow - I have still joy in the midst of all these things. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
900:Balance is the perfect state of still water. Let that be our model. It remains quiet within and is not disturbed on the surface. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
901:Confucius didn’t care much for women: When a girl, obey your father; when a wife, obey your husband; when a widow, obey your son. ~ Lisa See, #NFDB
902:Is any one able for one day to apply his strength to virtue? I have not seen the case in which his strength would be sufficient. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
903:man of the Axial Age, Confucius wanted people to become fully conscious of what they were doing. Performance of the li was ~ Karen Armstrong, #NFDB
904:The book salesman should be honored because he brings to our attention, as a rule, the very books we need most and neglect most. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
905:The Master said, “A true teacher is one who, keeping the past alive, is also able to understand the present.”
(Analects 2.11) ~ Confucius,#NFDB
906:A good man regards the root; he fixes the root, and ail else flows out of it. The root is filial piety; the fruit brotherly love. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
907:He who is really good can never be unhappy. He who is really wise can never be perplexed. He who is really brave is never afraid. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
908:If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
909:It was either me or Confucius that said the journey of a thousand miles begins with a vicious ass raping at airport security. ~ Doug Stanhope, #NFDB
910:One who never anticipates deceit or expects duplicity, and yet is the first to recognize such things – is that not a sage indeed? ~ Confucius, #NFDB
911:The most beautiful sight in the world is a little child going confidently down the road of life after you have shown him the way. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
912:Confucius said, "To know that we know what we know, and that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge. ~ Henry David Thoreau, #NFDB
913:He answered, How dare I look as high as Hui? When Hui hears one thing, he understands ten; when I hear one thing I understand two. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
914:One who has accumulated virtue will certainly also possess eloquence; but he who has eloquence doe not necessarily possess virtue. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
915:The Lord of Learning who upraised mankind From being silent brutes to singing men. ~ Charles Godfrey Leland, The Music-lesson of Confucius., #NFDB
916:It is not the failure of others to appreciate your abilities that should trouble you, but rather your failure to appreciate theirs. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
917:What the great learning teaches, is to illustrate illustrious virtue; to renovate the people; and to rest in the highest excellence. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
918:If doing what ought to be done be made the first business and success a secondary consideration--is not this the way to exalt virtue? ~ Confucius, #NFDB
919:In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
920:While you are not able to serve men, how can you serve spirits of the dead...While you do not know life, how can you know about death ~ Confucius, #NFDB
921:Conduct thyself always with the same prudence as though thou went observed by ten eyes and pointed at by ten fingers. —CONFUCIUS ~ Deborah Moggach, #NFDB
922:From the Son of Heaven down to the mass of the people, all must consider the cultivation of the person the root of everything besides. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
923:He Who Knows And Knows That He Knows Is A Wise Man - Follow Him; He Who Knows Not And Knows Not That He Knows Not Is A Fool - Shun Him ~ Confucius, #NFDB
924:I have not seen a person who loved virtue, or one who hated what was not virtuous. He who loved virtue would esteem nothing above it. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
925:Rate the task above the prize; will not the mind be raised? Fight thine own faults, not the faults of others; will not evil be mended? ~ Confucius, #NFDB
926:That a man lives is because he is straight. That a man who dupes others survives is because he has been fortunate enough to be spared. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
927:The superior man, even when he is not moving, has a feeling of reverence, and while he speaks not, he has the feeling of truthfulness. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
928:When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it--this is knowledge. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
929:A superior man may be made to go to the well, but he cannot be made to go down into it. He may be imposed upon, but he cannot be fooled. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
930:It was by music that the ancient kings gave elegant expression to their joy. By their armies and axes they gave the same to their anger. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
931:The Master said, I set my heart on the Way, base myself on virtue, lean upon benevolence for support and take my recreation in the arts. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
932:When I am with others, they are my teachers. I can select their good points and follow them, and select their bad points and avoid them. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
933:When you know a thing, to hold that you know it, and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
934:He Who Knows And Knows That He Knows Is A Wise Man - Follow Him;
He Who Knows Not And Knows Not That He Knows Not Is A Fool - Shun Him ~ Confucius,#NFDB
935:Just as lavishness leads easily to presumption, so does frugality to meanness. But meanness is a far less serious fault than presumption. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
936:The superior man governs men, according to their nature, with what is proper to them, and as soon as they change what is wrong, he stops. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
937:When you locate good in yourself, approve of it with determination. When you locate evil in yourself, despise it as something detestable. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
938:For one word a man is often deemed to be wise, and for one word he is often deemed to be foolish. We should be careful indeed what we say. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
939:Learn avidly. Question repeatedly what you have learned. Analyze it carefully. Then put what you have learned into practice intelligently. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
940:When everyone hates a person, you should investigate thoroughly, and when everyone loves a person, you should also investigate thoroughly. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
941:He who keeps danger in mind, is he who will rest safe in his seat; he who keeps ruin in mind, is he who will preserve his interests secure. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
942:If your plan is for one year plant rice. If your plan is for ten years plant trees. If your plan is for one hundred years educate children. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
943:instant. Confucius said, "To know that we know what we know, and that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge. ~ Henry David Thoreau, #NFDB
944:They will do; but they are not equal to him, who, though poor, is yet cheerful, and to him, who, though rich, loves the rules of propriety. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
945:To be fond of learning is near to wisdom; to practice with vigor is near to benevolence; and to be conscious of shame is near to fortitude. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
946:While they have not got their aims, their anxiety is how to get them. When they have got them, their anxiety is lest they should lose them. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
947:I used to take on trust a man's deeds after having listened to his words. Now having listened to a man's words I go on to observe his deeds. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
948:I want you to be everything that's you, deep at the center of your being.”
“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated ~ Confucius,#NFDB
949:Why don't the names of Buddha, Mohammed, Confucius offend people? The reason is that these others didn't claim to be God, but Jesus did. ~ Josh McDowell, #NFDB
950:Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone might be looking. Hear and you forget, see and you remember, do and you understand. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
951:The superior type of man is in all the circumstances of his life exempt from prejudices and obstinacy; he regulates himself by justice alone. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
952:Confucius said, “People may have the finest talents, but if they are arrogant and stingy, their other qualities are not worthy of consideration. ~ Sun Tzu, #NFDB
953:From the most exalted in position to the humblest and obscurest of men all have one equal duty, to correct incessantly and improve themselves. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
954:If language is not rectified, words do not correspond to meaning, and if words do not correspond to meaning, our deeds cannot be accomplished. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
955:If you yourself desire establishment, then help others to get establishment; if you yourself want success, then help others to attain success. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
956:The shortest distance between any two points on a golf course is a straight line that passes directly through the center of a very large tree. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
957:Those who understand a thing are not equal to those who are fond of it, and those who are fond of it are not equal to those who delight in it. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
958:In the Book of Poetry there are three hundred poems, but the meaning of all of them may be put in a single sentence: Have no debasing thoughts. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
959:There is the love of knowing without the love of learning; the beclouding here leads to dissipation of mind. ~ Confucius, Analects, Book XVII, Chapter VIII., #NFDB
960:The wise man admires water, the kind man admires mountains. The wise man moves, the kind man rests. The wise man is happy, the kind man is firm. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
961:To be excellent when engaged in administration is to be like the North Star. As it remains in its one position, all the other stars surround it. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
962:Tsze-kung wished to dispense with the sacrifice of a sheep for the New Moon ceremony. The Master said, "You love the sheep; I love the ceremony. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
963:When one cultivates to the utmost the principles of his nature, and exercises them on the principle of reciprocity, he is not far from the path. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
964:A knight whose heart is set upon the Way, but who is ashamed of wearing shabby clothes and eating coarse food, is not worth calling into counsel. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
965:If one should desire to know whether a kingdom is well governed, if its morals are good or bad, the quality of its music will furnish the answer. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
966:I used to listen to what others said, and expect them to act accordingly. But nowadays, I listen to what they say, and then observe what they do. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
967:The first person to promulgate the Golden Rule, which was the bedrock of this empathic spirituality, was Confucius 500 years before Christ. ~ Karen Armstrong, #NFDB
968:The gentleman does not promote people merely on the basis of their words, nor does he reject words merely because of the person who uttered them. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
969:Walking among three people, I find my teacher among them. I choose that which is good in them and follow it, and that which is bad and change it. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
970:Of neighborhoods, benevolence is the most beautiful. How can the man be considered wise who when he had the choice does not settle in benevolence. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
971:When a nation or family is about to flourish, there are sure to be happy omens; and when it is about to perish, there are sure to be unlucky omens. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
972:When we see men of worth, we should think of equalling them; when we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
973:But if you do not have the Tao yourself, what business have you spending your time in vain efforts to bring corrupt politicians into the right path? ~ Confucius, #NFDB
974:He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
975:If I give a student one-fourth of what he should know, I expect him to get the other three-fourths himself, otherwise I do not want him as a student. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
976:If Language is not correct, then what is said is not what is meant. If what is said is not what is meant, then what ought to be done, remains undone. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
977:Let our reason, and not our senses, be the rule of our conduct; for reason will teach us to think wisely, to speak prudently, and to behave worthily. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
978:Nothing is more visible than things hidden; Nothing is more manifest than things minute; Therefore, the superior man should be aware of his aloneness ~ Confucius, #NFDB
979:The faults of a superior person are like the sun and moon. They have their faults, and everyone sees them; they change and everyone looks up to them. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
980:The gentleman calls attention to the good points in others; he does not call attention to their defects. The small man does just the reverse of this. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
981:The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability that he has. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
982:The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
983:Base yourself in loyalty and trust. Don't be companion with those who are not your moral equal. When you make a mistake, don't hesitate to correct it. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
984:Naming enables the noble-minded to speak, and speech enables the noble-minded to act. Therefore, the noble-minded are anything but careless in speech. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
985:Things have their roots and branches. Affairs have their beginnings and their ends. To know what is first and what is last will lead one near the Way. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
986:He who remembers from day to day what he has yet to learn, and from month to month what he has learned already, may be said to have a love of learning. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
987:If the people be led by laws, and uniformity sought to be given them by punishments, they will try to avoid the punishment, but have no sense of shame. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
988:In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.” —Confucius ~ Megan Thomason, #NFDB
989:The requisites of government are that there be sufficiency of food, sufficiency of military equipment, and the confidence of the people in their ruler. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
990:The silent treasuring up of knowledge; learning without satiety; and instructing others without being wearied: which one of these things belongs to me? ~ Confucius, #NFDB
991:The superior man is quiet and calm, waiting for the appointments of heaven, while the mean man walks in dangerous paths, looking for lucky occurrences. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
992:Where one is hopelessly undecided as to what to say, there (as Confucius would have said, if they had given him the opportunity) silence is golden. ~ Lewis Carroll, #NFDB
993:Do not worry about not holding high position; worry rather about playing your proper role. Worry not that no one knows of you; seek to be worth knowing. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
994:When a man's knowledge is sufficient to attain, and his virtue is not sufficient to enable him to hold, whatever he may have gained, he will lose again. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
995:Would a panel of the wise—Confucius, Gautama Buddha, Jesus of Nazareth, Lao Tzu, Rumi, and Socrates—conceivably approve of our current way of life? ~ William Ophuls, #NFDB
996:A man of humanity is one who, in seeking to establish himself, finds a foothold for others and who, in desiring attaining himself, helps others to attain. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
997:Do you know what Confucius said about vengeance? Before you go on a journey of revenge, dig two graves. One for your enemy and one for yourself. ~ Christopher Greyson, #NFDB
998:Of course you want to be rich and famous. It's natural. Wealth and fame are what every man desires. The question is: What are you willing to trade for it? ~ Confucius, #NFDB
999:The faults of the superior man are like the eclipses of the sun and moon. He has his faults, and all men see them; he changes, and all men look up to him. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1000:The ultimate revenge is living well and being happy. Hateful people can't stand happy people. Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.”- ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1001:The wise man delights in water, the Good man delights in mountains. For the wise move; but the Good stay still. The wise are happy; but the good secure. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1002:When we see persons of worth, we should think of equaling them; when we see persons of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1003:He remembered the old Chinese proverb, sometimes ascribed to Confucius: If you sit by the river for long enough, the body of your enemy will float by. ~ Salman Rushdie, #NFDB
1004:Let the superior man bear himself in the commerce of men with an always dignified deference, regarding all men that dwell in the world as his own brothers. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1005:Reserved as he [Confucius] was about the supernatural, he was not without it; somewhere in the universe there was a power that was on the side of right. ~ Huston Smith, #NFDB
1006:The Master said, If out of the three hundred songs I had to take one phrase to cover all my teachings, I would say 'Let there be no evil in your thoughts.' ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1007:Women and people of low birth are very hard to deal with. If you are friendly to them, they get out of hand, and if you keep your distance, they resent it. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1008:There are cases in which the blade springs, but the plant does not go on to flower. There are cases where it flowers, but no fruit is subsequently produced. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1009:There are three marks of a superior man: being virtuous, he is free from anxiety; being wise, he is free from perplexity; being brave, he is free from fear. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1010:There are three things which the superior man guards against. In youth ... lust. When he is strong ... quarrelsomeness. When he is old ... covetousness. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1011:The way of the superior person is threefold; virtuous, they are free from anxieties; wise they are free from perplexities; and bold they are free from fear. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1012:Una casa será fuerte e indestructible cuando esté sostenida por estas cuatro columnas: padre valiente, madre prudente, hijo obediente, hermano complaciente. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1013:Poor food and water for dinner, a bent arm for a pillow – that is where joy resides. For me, wealth and renown without honor are nothing but drifting clouds. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1014:Thus the sage, always equal, awaits the command of destiny, while the vulgar throw themselves into a thousand dangers in a search for happiness at any price. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1015:To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1016:If one learns from others, but does not think, one will be bewildered. If, on the other hand, one thinks but does not learn from others, one will be in peril. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1017:The man of perfect virtue, wishing to be established himself, seeks also to establish others; wishing to be enlarged himself, he seeks also to enlarge others. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1018:The master said, 'Quietly to store up knowledge in my mind, to learn without flagging, to teach without growing weary, these present me with no difficulties.' ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1019:Look closely into his aims, observe the means by which he pursues them, discover what brings him content - and can the man's real worth remain hidden from you? ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1020:The superior man lives in peace with all men with- out acting absolutely like them. The vulgar man acts absolutely like them without being in accord with them. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1021:But what a force is that of the sage who can live at peace with men without having the mobility of water and remain in the midst of them firm and incorruptible ! ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1022:There are those men who say to repay evil with kindness. But I say, how then are we to repay kindness? Repay kindness with kindness, but repay evil with justice. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1023:If I cannot get men who steer a middle course to associate with, I would far rather have the impetuous and hasty. For the impetuous at any rate assert themselves. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1024:When you have become one with the Great Universal, you will have no partiality, and when you are part of the process of transformation, you will have no rigidity. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1025:We can know a person by observing his behaviour, understanding the reasons for his actions and ascertaining his intentions. If we do this, how can we not know him? ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1026:A reasonable man adjusts himself to the world. An unreasonable man expects the world to adjust itself to him. Therefore all progress is made by unreasonable people. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1027:The Path is not far from man. When men try to pursue a course, which is far from the common indications of consciousness, this course cannot be considered The Path. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1028:We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression; the heart of a wise man should resemble a mirror, which reflects every object without being sullied by any ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1029:The man who knows the principles of right reason is less than the man who loves them and he less then the man who makes of them his delight and practices them ~ Confucius:Lun-yu, #NFDB
1030:The superior man, extensively studying all learning, and keeping himself under the restraint of the rules of propriety, may thus likewise not overstep what is right. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1031:The way of Heaven and Earth may be completely declared in one sentence: They are without any doubleness, and so they produce things in a manner that is unfathomable. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1032:When a man is guided by the principles of reciprocity and consciousness, he is not far from the moral law. Whatever you don't wish for yourself don't do unto others. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1033:By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1034:Coarse rice to eat, water to drink, my bended arm for a pillow - therein is happiness. Wealth and rank attained through immoral means are nothing but drifting clouds. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1035:He alone knows the law of life. Whoever does not seek out clearly what is the true good, cannot correct himself with sincerity and does not arrive at true perfection. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1036:You yourself desire rank and standing; then help others to get rank and standing. You want to turn your merits to account; then help others to turn theirs to account. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1037:He begins by repeating a wise saying that’s been attributed in various forms to everyone from Confucius to Oprah: Forgiveness is giving up hope of a better past. ~ Elizabeth Smart, #NFDB
1038:The wise find pleasure in water; the virtuous find pleasure in hills. The wise are active; the virtuous are tranquil. The wise are joyful; the virtuous are long-lived. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1039:He with whom neither slander that gradually soaks into the mind, nor statements that startle like a wound in the flesh, are successful may be called intelligent indeed. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1040:Confucius sat down to rest, and his students immediately started asking him questions. On that day, he was in a good mood and so decided to answer. Someone asked him: ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
1041:It is goodness that gives to a neighborhood its beauty. One who is free to choose, yet does not prefer to dwell among the good - how can he be accorded the name of wise? ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1042:Let the states of equilibrium and harmony exist in perfection, and a happy order will prevail throughout heaven and earth, and all things will be nourished and flourish. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1043:No lake so still but it has its wave. No circle so perfect but that it has its blur. I would change things for you if I could; As I can't you must take them as they are. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1044:The superior man... does not set his mind either for or against anything, he will pursue whatever is right. The superior man thinks of virtue, the common man of comfort. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1045:Virtue is more to man than either water or fire. I have seen men die from treading on water and fire, but I have never seen a man die from treading the course of virtue. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1046:Although your father and mother are dead, if you propose to yourself any good work, only reflect how it will make their names illustrious, and your purpose will be fixed. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1047:Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1048:There are three degrees of filial piety. The highest is being a credit to our parents, the second is not disgracing them; the lowest is being able simply to support them. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1049:When you meet someone better than yourself, turn your thoughts to becoming his equal. When you meet someone not as good as you are, look within and examine your own self. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1050:Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance. —Confucius The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don’t know anything about. —Wayne Dyer ~ Max Tegmark, #NFDB
1051:Reviewing the day's lessons. Isn't it joyful? Friends come from far. Isn't it delightful? One has never been angry at other's misunderstanding. Isn't he a respectable man? ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1052:There may be men who act without understanding why. I do not. To listen much, pick out the good and follow it; to see much and ponder it: this comes next to understanding. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1053:The superior man accords with the course of the Mean. Though he may be all unknown, unregarded by the world, he feels no regret - It is only the sage who is able for this. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1054:Things that are done, it is needless to speak about; things that have had their course, it is needless to remonstrate about; things that are past, it is needless to blame. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1055:All wisdom is rooted in learning to call things by the right name. When things are properly identified, they fall into natural categories and understanding becomes orderly. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1056:Am I a man of great wisdom? Hardly! Even when a simple person brings me a question, my mind goes utterly blank, I just thrash it out until I’ve exhausted every possibility. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1057:It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1058:Somehow I had learned from Thoreau, who doubtless learned it from Confucius, that if a man comes to do his own good for you, then must you flee that man and save yourself ~ Pearl S Buck, #NFDB
1059:When a man's knowledge is sufficient to attain, and his virtue is not sufficient to enable him to hold, whatever he may have gained, he will lose again. ~ Confucius, Analects, 15:32, i, #NFDB
1060:If proper in their own conduct, what difficulty would they have in governing? But if not able to be proper in their own conduct, how can they demand such conduct from others? ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1061:If you look at their intentions, examine their motives, and scrutinize what brings them contentment – how can people hide who they are? How can they hide who they really are? ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1062:Let a ruler base his government upon virtuous principles, and he will be like the pole-star, which remains steadfast in its place, while all the host of stars turn towards it ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1063:To be able under all circumstances to practice five things constitutes perfect virtue; these five things are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness and kindness. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1064:To give oneself ernestly to securing righteousness and justice among the people, and while respecting the gods and demons, to keep aloof from them, that may be called wisdom. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1065:If there were an honorable way to get rich, I’d do it, even if it meant being a stooge standing around with a whip. But there isn’t an honorable way, so I just do what I like. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1066:No lake so still but it has its wave.
No circle so perfect but that it has its blur.
I would change things for you if I could; As I can't you must take them as they are. ~ Confucius,#NFDB
1067:Not to discuss with a man worthy of conversation is to waste the man. To discuss with a man not worthy of conversation is to waste words. The wise waste neither men nor words. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1068:A man should say, I am not concerned that I have no place, I am concerned how I may fit myself for one. I am not concerned that I am not known, I seek to be worthy to be known. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1069:Don’t worry if you have no position: worry about making yourself worthy of one. Don’t worry if you aren’t known and admired: devote yourself to a life that deserves admiration. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1070:Even when walking in the company of two other men, I am bound to be able to learn from them. The good points of the one I copy, the bad points of the other I correct in myself. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1071:The superior man undergoes three changes. Looked at from a distance, he appears stern; when approached, he is mild; when he is heard to speak, his language is firm and decided. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1072:In archery we have something like the way of the superior man. When the archer misses the center of the target, he turns round and seeks for the cause of his failure in himself. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1073:Look not at what is contrary to propriety; listen not to what is contrary to propriety; speak not what is contrary to propriety; make no movement which is contrary to propriety. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1074:Not to converse with a man worthy of conversation is to waste the man. To converse with a man not worthy of conversation is to waste words. The wise waste neither men nor words. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1075:The ideal teacher guides his students but does not pull them along; he urges them to go forward and does not suppress them; he opens the way but does not take them to the place. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1076:The law of the grand study or practical philosophy consists in developing and bringing into light the luminous principle of reason which we have received from heaven. ~ Confucius “Ta-hio” I, #NFDB
1077:There are those who act without knowing; I will have none of this. To hear a lot, choose the good, and follow it, to see a lot and learn to recognize it: this is next knowledge. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1078:I do not suspect that Jefferson or Madison ever envisioned Congress honoring the 2,560th anniversary of the birth of Confucius or supporting the designation of National Pi Day. ~ Eric Cantor, #NFDB
1079:In the liquid amber within the ivory porcelain, the initiated may touch the sweet reticence of Confucius, the piquancy of Laotse, and the ethereal aroma of Sakyamuni himself. ~ Kakuz Okakura, #NFDB
1080:The determined scholar and the man of virtue will not seek to live at the expense of injuring their virtue. They will even sacrifice their lives to preserve their virtue complete. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1081:But somewhere I had learned from Thoreau, who doubtless learned it from Confucius, that if a man comes to do his own good for you, then must you flee that man and save yourself. ~ Pearl S Buck, #NFDB
1082:If a man be without the virtues proper to humanity, what has he to do with the rites of propriety? If a man be without the virtues proper to humanity, what has he to do with music? ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1083:While the gentleman cherishes benign rule, the small man cherishes his native land. While the gentleman cherishes a respect for the law, the small man cherishes generous treatment. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1084:The superior man will watch over himself when he is alone. He examines his heart that there may be nothing wrong there, and that he may have no cause of dissatisfaction with himself. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1085:If names are not correct, then language is not in accord with the truth of things. If language is not in accord with the truth of things, then affairs cannot be carried out successfully. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1086:If one leads them with administrative measures and uses punishments to make them conform, the people will be evasive, but if one leads them with virtue, they will come up to expectations. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1087:There are three things to beware of through life: when a man is young, let him beware of his appetites; when he is middle-aged, of his passions; and when old, of covetousness, especially. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1088:In following the Way, the noble-minded treasure three things: a manner free of violence and arrogance, a countenance full of sincerity and trust, a voice free of vulgarity and impropriety. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1089:Is there any one maxim which ought to be acted upon throughout one's whole life? Surely the maxim of loving kindness is such: Do not unto others what you would not they should do unto you. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1090:By three roads we can reach wisdom: the road of experience and this is the most difficult; the road of initiative and this is the easiest; and the road of reflection and this is the noblest. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1091:Adept Lu spent a night at Stone Date, and the gatekeeper asked: Where are you from? From the House of Confucius, replied Lu. Isn’t he the one who knows it’s hopeless, but keeps trying anyway? ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1092:Clever talk, ingratiating looks, fawning reverence: Tso-ch’iu Ming found that shameful, and so do I. Friendly while harboring resentment: Tso-ch’iu Ming found that shameful, too, and so do I. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1093:Guide the people by law, subdue them by punishment; they may shun crime, but will be void of shame. Guide them by example, subdue them by courtesy; they will learn shame, and come to be good. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1094:The superior man cannot be known in little matters, but he may be entrusted with great concerns. The small man may not be entrusted with great concerns, but he may be known in little matters. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1095:Hear the wind and you will know the wind. Wind blows, and the generations are its leaves. There was no higher praise than what was said of Confucius: He knows where the wind comes from. ~ Eliot Weinberger, #NFDB
1096:The new religion without any secrets is philosophy. The old religion, said Aristotle, is necessary only for the uneducated; Confucius, Buddha, Voltaire and Lessing were of the same opinion. ~ Artur Phleps, #NFDB
1097:If a man is detested by the crowd, you must examine, before you judge him, why they condemn, and if a man is venerated by the crowd, equally must you, before you judge, examine why they admire. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1098:The superior man, while his parents are alive, reverently nourishes them; and, when they are dead, reverently sacrifices to them. His thought to the end of his life is how not to disgrace them. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1099:The Master said, “A true gentleman is one who has set his heart upon the Way. A fellow who is ashamed merely of shabby clothing or modest meals is not even worth conversing with.” (Analects 4.9) ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1100:To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge. When you say something, say what you know. When you don't know something, say you don't know. That is knowledge. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1101:To rein a kingdom efficiently it is necessary, before all, to put into good order the family. It's impossible for a man who doesn't know how to lead his own family to know how to lead a country. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1102:If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1103:Instead of being concerned that you have no office, be concerned to think how you may fit yourself for office. Instead of being concerned that you are not known, seek to be worthy of being known. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1104:The Master said, Guide the people by law, aline them by punishment; they may shun crime, but they will want shame. Guide them by mind, aline them by courtesy; they will learn shame and grow good. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1105:The Superior Man has nothing to compete for. But if he must compete, he does it in an archery match, wherein he ascends to his position, bowing in deference. Descending, he drinks the ritual cup. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1106:Without goodness a man cannot endure adversity for long, nor can he enjoy prosperity for long. The good man is naturally at ease with goodness. The wise man cultivates goodness for its advantage. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1107:The man who is sincere and careful to do nothing to others that he would not have done to him, is not far from the Law. What he does not desire to be done to him, let him not himself do to others. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1108:If you would govern a state of a thousand chariots (a small-to-middle-size state), you must pay strict attention to business, be true to your word, be economical in expenditure and love the people. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1109:One who is by nature daring and is suffering from poverty will not long be law-abiding. Indeed, any men, save those that are truly good, if their sufferings are very great, will be likely to rebel. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1110:The Master said, “A true gentleman is one who has set his heart upon the Way. A fellow who is ashamed merely of shabby clothing or modest meals is not even worth conversing with.”
(Analects 4.9) ~ Confucius,#NFDB
1111:Confucius says: 'Many seek happiness higher than man; others beneath him. But happiness is the
same height as man.' That is true. So there must be a happiness to suit every man's stature. ~ Nikos Kazantzakis,#NFDB
1112:Tea tempers the spirits and harmonizes the mind, dispels lassitude and relieves fatigue, awakens thought and prevents drowsiness, lightens or refreshes the body, and clears the perceptive faculties. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1113:To acknowledge our faults when we are blamed, is modesty; to discover them to one's friends in ingenuousness, is confidence; but to preach them to all the world, if one does not take care, is pride. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1114:Heaven, in the production of things, is sure to be bountiful to them, according to their qualities. Hence the tree that is flourishing, it nourishes, while that which is ready to fall, it overthrows. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1115:The higher type of man clings to virtue, the lower type of man clings to material comfort. The higher type of man cherishes justice, the lower type of man cherishes the hope of favors to be received. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1116:If you want to make a stand, help others make a stand, and if you want to reach your goal, help others reach their goal. Consider yourself and treat others accordingly: this is the method of Humanity. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1117:The gentleman holds justice to be of highest importance. If a gentleman has courage but neglects justice, he becomes insurgent. If an inferior man has courage but neglects justice, he becomes a thief. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1118:The young should be dutiful at home, modest abroad, careful and true, overflowing in kindness for all, but in brotherhood with love. And if they have strength to spare they should spend it on the arts. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1119:Tsze-Kung asked, “Is there one word with which to act in accordance throughout a lifetime?” The Master said, “Is not reciprocity such a word? What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1120:Love thy neighbor as thyself: Do not do to others what thou wouldst not wish be done to thyself: Forgive injuries. Forgive thy enemy, be reconciled to him, give him assistance, invoke God in his behalf. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1121:I know how the birds fly, how the fishes swim, how animals run. But there is the Dragon. I cannot tell how it mounts on the winds through the clouds and flies through heaven. Today I have seen the Dragon. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1122:In a hamlet of ten households, there are bound to be those who are my equal in doing their best for others and in being trustworthy in what they say, but they are unlikely to be as eager to learn as I am. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1123:To one who is not eager I do not reveal anything, nor do I explain anything to one who is not communicative. If I raise one corner for someone and he cannot come back with the other three, I do not go on. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1124:Whoever knows essentially his own nature, can know also that of other men and can penetrate into the nature of things. He can collaborate in the transformations and in the progress of heaven and of earth. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1125:A gentleman considers justice to be essential in everything. He practices it according to the principles of propriety. He brings it forth in modesty and faithfully completes it. This is indeed a gentleman. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1126:First there must be order and harmony within your own mind. Then this order will spread to your family, then to the community, and finally to your entire kingdom. Only then can you have peace and harmony. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1127:A man should demand much from himself, but little from others. When you meet a man of worth, think how you may attain to his excellence. When you meet an unworthy one, then look within and examine yourself. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1128:I daily examine myself on three points: In planning for others, have I failed in conscientiousness? In intercourse with friends, have I been insincere? And have I failed to practice what I have been taught? ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1129:To study and constantly, is this not a pleasure? To have friends come from far away places, is this not a joy? If people do not recognize your worth, but this does not worry you, are you not a true gentleman? ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1130:Do not wish for quick results, nor look for small advantages. If you seek quick results, you will not reach the ultimate goal. If you are led astray by small advantages, you will never accomplish great things. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1131:If the search for riches were sure to be successful, though I should become a groom with a whip in my hand to get them, I will do so. As the search may not be successful, I will follow after that which I love. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1132:Senza Fermezza, il gentiluomo non riscuote rispetto ed il suo sapere non sarà ascoltato. | Preconizzando lealtà e fidatezza, non avrà amici che sono simili a se stesso. | Non esiterà a correggere i suoi errori ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1133:Guide the people by law, subdue them by punishment; they may shun crime, but will be void of shame. Guide them by example, subdue them by courtesy; they will learn shame, and come to be good. CONFUCIUS ~ John Kay, #NFDB
1134:Only one who bursts with enthusiasm do I instruct; Only one who bubbles with excitement do I enlighten. If I hold up one corner and you do not come back to me with the other three, I do not continue the lesson. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1135:Slingerland explains that Chinese philosophers like Confucius, Lao Tse, Zhuangzi, and a few others were concerned with accessing a state called Wu-Wei, pronounced “ooh-way.” This is a state of spontaneous flow. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1136:Speak the truth, do not yield to anger; give, if thou art asked for little; by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.
راست بگو، تسليم خشم نشو، اگر از تو كم خواستند ببخش؛ با اين سه به خدايان مي رسي ~ Confucius,#NFDB
1137:It is the way of the superior man to prefer the concealment of his virtue, while it daily becomes more illustrious, and it is the way of the mean man to seek notoriety, while he daily goes more and more to ruin. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1138:Charity is that rational and constant affection which makes us sacrifice ourselves to the human race, as if we were united with it, so as to form one individual, partaking equally in its adversity and prosperity. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1139:The Master said of Gong Yechang, “He is marriageable. Although he was once imprisoned and branded as a criminal, he was in fact innocent of any crime.” The Master gave him his daughter in marriage. (Analects 5.1) ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1140:Confucius said, “When young, beware of fighting; when strong, beware of sex; and when old, beware of possession,” which simply means that a boy loves fighting, a young man loves women, and an old man loves money. ~ Lin Yutang, #NFDB
1141:Confucius (as the barbarians call him) also taught that, “When the government is honest, the people will learn honesty by example; when the government is crooked, the people will learn to be thieves also. ~ Robert Anton Wilson, #NFDB
1142:Their persons being cultivated, their families were regulated. Their families being regulated, their states were rightly governed. Their states being rightly governed, the whole kingdom was made tranquil and happy. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1143:These are the four abuses: desire to succeed in order to make oneself famous; taking credit for the labors of others; refusal to correct one's errors despite advice; refusal to change one's ideas despite warnings. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1144:When a prince’s personal conduct is correct,” Confucius said, “his government is effective without the issuing of orders. If his personal conduct is not correct, he may issue orders, but they will not be followed. ~ Evan Osnos, #NFDB
1145:Ada yang mengukur hidup mereka dari hari dan tahun. Yang lain dengan denyut jantung, gairah, dan air mata. Tetapi ukuran sejati di bawah mentari adalah apa yang telah engkau lakukan dalam hidup ini untuk orang lain. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1146:Because the newer methods of treatment are good, it does not follow that the old ones were bad: for if our honorable and worshipful ancestors had not recovered from their ailments, you and I would not be here today. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1147:First and foremost, be faithful to your superiors, keep all promises, refuse the friendship of all who are not like you; and if you have made a mistake, do not be afraid of admitting the fact and amending your ways. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1148:The Master said of Gong Yechang, “He is marriageable. Although he was once imprisoned and branded as a criminal, he was in fact innocent of any crime.” The Master gave him his daughter in marriage.
(Analects 5.1) ~ Confucius,#NFDB
1149:How abundantly do spiritual beings display the powers that belong to them! We look for them, but do not see them; we listen to, but do not hear them; yet they enter into all things, and there is nothing without them. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1150:Isn't it a pleasure to study and practice what you have learned? Isn't it also great when friends visit from distant places? If one remains not annoyed when he is not understood by people around him, isn't he a sage? ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1151:Confucius and you are both dreams, and I who say you are dreams am a dream myself. This is a paradox. Tomorrow a wise man may explain it; that tomorrow will not be for ten thousand generations. — CHUANG TSE: II ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1152:he had four of the characteristics of a superior man:— in his conduct of himself, he was humble; in serving his superiors, he was respectful; in nourishing the people, he was kind; in ordering the people, he was just. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1153:Among us, in our part of the country, those who are upright are different from this. The father conceals the misconduct of the son, and the son conceals the misconduct of the father. Uprightness is to be found in this. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1154:The way of the superior man may be compared to what takes place in traveling, when to go to a distance we must first traverse the space that is near, and in ascending a height, when we must begin from the lower ground. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1155:There is a war out there, and believe me, Fly, it was never really between Jews, Muslims, Hindus, Crusaders and Confucius. The final battle is between those who love, respect, and liberate the body and those who hate it ~ Rawi Hage, #NFDB
1156:Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1157:Yin and yang, male and female, strong and weak, rigid and tender, heaven and earth, light and darkness, thunder and lightning, cold and warmth, good and evil…the interplay of opposite principles constitutes the universe. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1158:The Master said, “You [Zilu], do you know what I have been trying to teach you? To say that you know something when you know it and to say that you do not know something when you do not know it—this is true knowing [zhi]. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1159:He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger... Men of superior mind busy themselves first getting at the root of things; when they succeed, the right course is open to them. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1160:The gods should certainly be revered, but kept at a distance... . The way is not beyond man; he who creates a way outside of man cannot make it a true way. A good man is content with changing man, and that is enough for him. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1161:Yin and yang, male and female, strong and weak, rigid and tender, heaven and earth, light and darkness, thunder and lightning, cold and warmth, good and evil...the interplay of opposite principles constitutes the universe. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1162:The man who in view of gain thinks of righteousness; who in the view of danger is prepared to give up his life; and who does not forget an old agreement however far back it extends - such a man may be reckoned a complete man. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1163:What you dislike in your superiors, avoid doing to your inferiors. What you dislike in your inferiors, avoid doing when working for your superiors. What you hate in those who are in front of you, do not do to those behind you. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1164:The failure to cultivate virtue, the failure to examine and analyze what I have learned, the inability to move toward righteousness after being shown the way, the inability to correct my faults-these are the causes of my grief. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1165:Friendship with the upright, with the truthful and with the well informed is beneficial. Friendship with those who flatter, with those who are meek and who compromise with principles, and with those who talk cleverly is harmful. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1166:If a man is respectful he will not be treated with insolence. If he is tolerant he will win the multitude. If he is trustworthy in word his fellow men will entrust him with responsibility. If he is quick he will achieve results. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1167:When a person should be spoken with, and you don't speak with them, you lose them. When a person shouldn't be spoken with and you speak to them, you waste your breath. The wise do not lose people, nor do they waste their breath. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1168:The superior person tries to promote music as a means to the perfection of human culture. When such music prevails, and people's minds are led towards the right ideals and aspirations, we may see the appearance of a great nation. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1169:Not to talk with people although they can be talked with is to waste people. To talk with people although they can't be talked with is to waste words. A man of understanding does not waste people, but he also does not waste words. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1170:You know what I want to think of myself? As a human being. Because, I mean I don't want to be like "As Confucius say," but under the sky, under the heavens there is but one family. It just so happens man that people are different. ~ Bruce Lee, #NFDB
1171:At 15 I set my heart on learning; At 30 I firmly took my stand; At 40 I had no delusions; At 50 I knew the Mandate of Heaven; At 60 my ear was attuned; At 70 I followed my heart's desire without overstepping the boundaries of right. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1172:The superior man does not mind being in office; all he minds about is whether he has qualities that entitle him to office. He does not mind failing to get recognition; he is too busy doing the things that entitle him to recognition. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1173:What is the good of being ready with the tongue? They who encounter men with smartnesses of speech for the most part procure themselves hatred. I know not whether he be truly virtuous, but why should he show readiness of the tongue? ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1174:As in the case of making a mound, if, before the very last basketful, I stop, then I shall have stopped. As in the case of leveling the ground, if, though tipping only one basketful, I am going forward, then I shall be making progress. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1175:When you serve your mother and father it is okay to try to correct them once in a while. But if you see that they are not going to listen to you, keep your respect for them and don't distance yourself from them. Work without complaining. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1176:Confucius is like the Torah, rules to follow. And Lao-Tzu is even more conservative, saying that if you do nothing you won't break any rules. You have to let tradition fall sometime, you have to take action, you have to eat bacon. ~ Christopher Moore, #NFDB
1177:Wealth and rank are what men desire, but unless they be obtained in the right way they may not be possessed. Poverty and obscurity are what men detest; but unless prosperity be brought about in the right way, they are not to be abandoned. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1178:To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must first put the family in order; to put the family in order; we must first cultivate our personal life; we must first set our hearts right. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1179:A youth is to be regarded with respect. How do we know that his future will not be equal to our present? If he reach the age of forty or fifty, and has not made himself heard of, then indeed he will not be worth being regarded with respect. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1180:Buddha, Confucius, or Socrates can bring us good teaching, moral excellence, and religious philosophy. For this they may be commended as rendering help and aid to humanity. But Jesus Christ is different: He brings us Himself as our Life. ~ Chip Brogden, #NFDB
1181:Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it Confucius All truth is safe and nothing else is safe, but he who keeps back truth, or withholds it from men, from motives of expediency, is either a coward or a criminal. ~ James Russell Lowell, #NFDB
1182:No matter how accomplished one might be in any branch of learning or art, one would have to be condemned to hell, if on where not endowed with th five cardinal virtues of Confucius-benevolence, justice, courtesy, wisdom and fidelity ~ Ryunosuke Akutagawa, #NFDB
1183:In dealing with the dead, if we treat them as if they were entirely dead, that would show a want of affection and should not be done; or, if we treat them as if they were entirely alive, that would show a want of wisdom and should not be done. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1184:For life is an expression, our unconscious actions the constant betrayal of our innermost thought. Confucius said that "man hideth not." Perhaps we reveal ourselves too much in small things because we have so little of the great to conceal. ~ Kakuz Okakura, #NFDB
1185:What Heaven has conferred is called The Nature; an accordance with this nature is called The Path of duty; the regulation of this path is called Instruction. The path may not be left for an instant. If it could be left, it would not be the path. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1186:The Master said, “What a worthy man was Yan Hui! Living in a narrow alley, subsisting upon meager bits of rice and water—other people could not have borne such hardship, and yet it never spoiled Hui’s joy. What a worthy man was Hui!” (Analects 6.11) ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1187:Study the past if you would define the future. I am not one who was born in the possession of knowledge; I am one who is fond of antiquity, and earnest in seeking it there. Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1188:From the loving example of one family a whole State may become loving, and from its courtesies, courteous; while from the ambition and perverseness of the one man the whole State may be thrown into rebellious disorder. Such is the nature of influence. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1189:The Master said, “What a worthy man was Yan Hui! Living in a narrow alley, subsisting upon meager bits of rice and water—other people could not have borne such hardship, and yet it never spoiled Hui’s joy. What a worthy man was Hui!”
(Analects 6.11) ~ Confucius,#NFDB
1190:If I were travelling with two partners, one virtuous and one dishonest, both would be useful as teachers. I would perceive what's good of the first one and I would imitate him whereas I would try to correct in me the defects I may see in the second one. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1191:Plantie is a very strong Protestant, that is to say, he's against all churches, especially the Protestant: and he thinks a lot of Buddha, Karma and Confucius. He is also a bit of an anarchist and three or four years ago he took up Einstein and vitamins. ~ Joyce Cary, #NFDB
1192:Si vos parents tombent dans une faute, avertissez-les avec grande douceur. Si vous les voyez déterminés à ne pas suivre vos avis, redoublez vos témoignages de respect, sans vous opposer. Quand même ils vous maltraiteraient, n’en ayez aucun ressentiment. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1193:Earnest in practicing the ordinary virtues, and careful in speaking about them, if, in his practice, he has anything defective, the superior man dares not but exert himself; and if, in his words, he has any excess, he dares not allow himself such license. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1194:I do not open up the truth to one who is not eager to get knowledge, nor help out anyone who is not anxious to explain himself. When I have presented one corner of a subject to anyone, and he cannot from it learn the other three, I do not repeat my lesson. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1195:When the Master entered the great temple he asked about everything. Someone said, ‘Who will say that this son of the man of Zou knows about ritual? When he enters the temple, he asks about everything’. The Master heard of it and said, ‘This is the ritual’. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1196:A country of a thousand war-chariots cannot be administered unless the ruler attends strictly to business, punctually observes his promises, is economical in expenditure, loves the people, and uses the labor of the peasantry only at the proper times of year. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1197:Man’s greatest excuse to delay the inevitable.” “Can you not fucking talk like your auditioning for the role of Confucius?” “If you make a mistake and do not correct it, this is called a mistake.” Of course he goes and actually quotes Confucius. Fuck me. ~ Krista Ritchie, #NFDB
1198:When a man comes to me, I accept him at his best, not at his worst. Why make so much ado? When a man washes his hands before paying a visit, and you receive him in that clean state, you do not thereby stand surety for his always having been clean in the past. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1199:You know, I met a wise man centuries ago in China who said to me, ‘He who lets fear rule him, has fear for a master. (Acheron) Confucius? (Talon) No, Minh-Quan. He was a fisherman who used to sell what I’m told was the best zong zi ever made. (Acheron) ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon, #NFDB
1200:Guide them by edicts, keep them in line with punishments, and the common people will stay out of trouble but will have no sense of shame. Guide them by virtue, keep them in line with the rites, and they will, besides having a sense of shame, reform themselves. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1201:But unlike Machiavelli, Confucius was concerned more with the cultivation of social harmony than with the machinations of power. His themes were the principles of compassionate rule, the performance of correct rituals, and the inculcation of filial piety. ~ Henry Kissinger, #NFDB
1202:By looking at a person's features, clothing, and speech, even Confucius would not be able to say what sort of a person he is. But by testing him in a position and seeing what he he does, even someone with so-so judgment would be able to know if he is wise or not. ~ Han Fei, #NFDB
1203:I daily examine myself on three points:— whether, in transacting business for others, I may have been not faithful;— whether, in intercourse with friends, I may have been not sincere;— whether I may have not mastered and practised the instructions of my teacher. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1204:I do not enlighten those who are not eager to learn, nor arouse those who are not anxious to give an explanation themselves. If I have presented one corner of the square and they cannot come back to me with the other three, I should not go over the points again. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1205:When you make a promise consistent with what is right, you can keep your word. When you show respect consistent with good taste, you keep shame and disgrace at a distance. When he in whom you confide is one who does not fail his friends, you may trust him fully. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1206:Worthy admonitions cannot fail to inspire us, but what matters is changing ourselves. Reverent advice cannot fail to encourage us, but what matters is acting on it. Encouraged without acting, inspired without changing – there’s nothing to be done for such people. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1207:If names be not correct, language is not in accordance with the truth of things. If language be not in accordance with the truth of things, affairs cannot be carried on to success. When affairs cannot be carried on to success, proprieties and music do not flourish. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1208:You know, I met a wise man centuries ago in China who said to me, ‘He who lets fear rule him, has fear for a master. (Acheron)
Confucius? (Talon)
No, Minh-Quan. He was a fisherman who used to sell what I’m told was the best zong zi ever made. (Acheron) ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon,#NFDB
1209:If a man remembers what is right at the sign of profit, is ready to lay down his life in the face of danger, and does not forget sentiments he has repeated all his life when he has been in straitened circumstances for a long time, he may be said to be a complete man. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1210:The noble-minded have nine states of mind: for eyes, bright; for ears, penetrating; for countenance; cordial; for demeanor, humble; for words, trustworthy; for service, reverent; for doubt, questioning; for anger circumspect; and for facing a chance to profit, moral. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1211:Thanks, Del Grazo."
"Hey, no problem, sir."
A New York phrase, not Chinese. Well, I thought, if he's a spy for China, he's not going to run around saying things like, As Confucius said and my spymaster stressed, he who learns but does not think is lost! ~ James Abel,#NFDB
1212:Riches and honor are what everyone desires, but if they can be gained only by doing evil, they must not be held. Don't worry about not being in office, worry about qualifying yourself for office. Don't worry that no one knows you, but seek to be worthy of being known. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1213:If the gentleman is not serious, he will not be respected, and his learning will not be on a firm foundation. He considers loyalty and faithfulness to be fundamental, has no friends who are not like him, and when he has made mistakes, he is not afraid of correcting them. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1214:The implications for politics were immense. If instead of ruthlessly pursuing his own self-interest to the detriment of others, a ruler would "curb his ego and submit to li for a single day," Confucius believed, "everyone under Heaven would respond to his goodness! ~ Karen Armstrong, #NFDB
1215:The superior man honors his virtuous nature, and maintains constant inquiry and study, seeking to carry it out to its breadth and greatness, so as to omit none of the more exquisite and minute points which it embraces, and to raise it to its greatest height and brilliancy. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1216:Love others as you would love yourself, judge others as you would judge yourself, cherish others as you would cherish yourself. When you wish for others as you wish for yourself and when you protect others as you would protect yourself, that's when you can say it's true love. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1217:It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.
Confucius
This is a major problem in America, where greed, power, and money are the highest value. This creates a paranoia atmosphere.I mention this all the time, but first time I have ever seen it. ~ Confucius,#NFDB
1218:Listen much, keep silent when in doubt, and always take heed of the tongue; thou wilt make few mistakes. See much, beware of pitfalls, and always give heed to thy walk; thou wilt have little to rue. If thy words are seldom wrong, thy deeds leave little to rue, pay will follow. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1219:The superior man does what is proper to the station in which he is; he does not desire to go beyond this. In a position of wealth and honor, he does what is proper to a position of wealth and honor. In a poor and low position, he does what is proper to a poor and low position. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1220:You can achieve wisdom in three ways. The first way is the way of meditation. This is the most noble way. The second way is the way of imitation. This is the easiest and least satisfying way. Thirdly, there is the way of experience. This is the most difficult way. —CONFUCIUS ~ Leo Tolstoy, #NFDB
1221:The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra. The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me you don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step the man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1222:I saw some piglets suckling their dead mother. After a short while they shuddered and went away. They had sensed that she could no longer see them and that she wasn't like them any more. What they loved in their mother wasn't her body, but whatever it was that made her body live. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1223:The small man thinks that small acts of goodness are of no benefit, and does not do them; and that small deeds of evil do no harm, and does not refrain from them. Hence, his wickedness becomes so great that it cannot be concealed, and his guilt so great that it cannot be pardoned. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1224:The Master said, "To study, and then in a timely fashion to practice what you have learned - is this not satisfying? To have companions arrive from afar - is this not a joy? To remain unrecognized by others and yet remain free of resentment - is this not the mark of the gentleman?" ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1225:Kong Qiu, or Master Kong as he was known, did not live to see his days of glory. During his lifetime, his views were received with scorn. But that was about two thousand five hundred years ago. A handful of his dedicated followers passed on Confucius' teachings to future generations. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1226:The administration of government lies in getting proper men. Such men are to be got by means of the ruler's own character. That character is to be cultivated by his treading in the ways of duty. And the treading those ways of duty is to be cultivated by the cherishing of benevolence. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1227:There is great power in focusing on what you want..... The person who tries to do everything accomplishes nothing. Most people try to be all things to everyone. And so they end up being nothing to anyone. Confucius nailed the point: "Person who chases two rabbits catches neither." ~ Robin Sharma, #NFDB
1228:You're not very good at being contemplative," Milo said. "You always sound like some bad caricature of a philosopher, like those fortune cookies with 'Confucius say' or the Nietzsche guy from Mystery Men that's always saying 'when you walk on the ground, the ground walks on you. ~ Amanda Hocking, #NFDB
1229:If the people are governed by laws and punishment is used to maintain order, they will try to avoid the punishment but have no sense of shame. If they are governed by virtue and rules of propriety are used to maintain order, they will have a sense of shame and will become good as well. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1230:The philosopher Zeng said, "I daily examine myself on three points: whether, in transacting business for others, I may have been not faithful; whether, in intercourse with friends, I may have been not sincere; whether I may have not mastered and practiced the instructions of my teacher. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1231:Sir, in carrying on your government, why should you use killing at all? Let your evinced desires be for what is good, and the people will be good. The relation between superiors and inferiors is like that between the wind and the grass. The grass must bend, when the wind blows across it. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1232:The cock, that is the trumpet to the morn, Doth with his lofty and shrill-sounding throat Awake the god of day; and, at his warning, Whether in sea or fire, in earth or air, The extravagant and erring spirit hies To his confine: and of the truth herein This present object made probation. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1233:The man quoted Confucius? How unfair that a man such as he could be so clever, dangerous, rich, powerful, and well read. Farah stifled a sigh, then, alarmed by her reaction to him, straightened her spine and took up her quill, ready to swipe the efficient shorthand across her paper. ~ Kerrigan Byrne, #NFDB
1234:Yet the stupid believe they are awake, busily and brightly assuming they understand things, calling this man ruler, that one herdsman – how dense! Confucius and you are both dreaming! And when I say you are dreaming, I am dreaming, too. Words like these will be labeled the Supreme Swindle. ~ Zhuangzi, #NFDB
1235:Such is my veneration for every religion that reveals the attributes of the Deity, or a future state of rewards and punishments, that I had rather see the opinions of Confucius or Mahomed inculcated upon our youth than see them grow up wholly devoid of a system of religious principles. ~ Benjamin Rush, #NFDB
1236:When the Superior Man eats he does not try to stuff himself; at rest he does not seek perfect comfort; he is diligent in his work and careful in speech. He avails himself to people of the Tao and thereby corrects himself. This is the kind of person of whom you can say, "he loves learning." ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1237:The Master said, 'Respectfulness, without the rules of propriety, becomes laborious bustle; carefulness, without the rules of propriety, becomes timidity; boldness, without the rules of propriety, becomes insubordination; straightforwardness, without the rules of propriety, becomes rudeness. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1238:So I cast my lot with Him-not the one who claimed wisdom, Confucius; or the one who claimed enlightenment, Buddha; or the one who claimed to be a prophet, Muhammad, but with the one who claimed to be God in human flesh. The one who declared, 'Before Abraham was born, I am'-and proved it. ~ Norman Geisler, #NFDB
1239:The Master said, “To study, and then in a timely fashion to practice what you have learned—is this not satisfying? To have companions arrive from afar—is this not a joy? To remain unrecognized by others and yet remain free of resentment—is this not the mark of the gentleman?”
(Analects 1.1) ~ Confucius,#NFDB
1240:If there is righteousness in the heart, there will be beauty in the character.
If there is beauty in the character, there will be harmony in the home.
If there is harmony in the home, there will be order in the nations.
When there is order in the nations, there will peace in the world. ~ Confucius,#NFDB
1241:So I cast my lot with him-not the one who claimed wisdom, Confucius; or the one who claimed enlightenment, Buddha; or the one who claimed to be a prophet, Muhammad, but with the one who claimed to be God in human flesh. The one who declared, 'Before Abraham was born, I am' - and proved it. ~ Norman L Geisler, #NFDB
1242:In the worship of Bacchus, we have sacrificed too freely.... Why not consecrate ourselves to the queen of the Camelias, and revel in the warm stream of sympathy that flows from her altar? In the liquid amber within the ivory-porcelain, the initiated may touch the sweet reticence of Confucius. ~ Okakura Kakuzo, #NFDB
1243:The superior man, when resting in safety, does not forget that danger may come. When in a state of security he does not forget the possibility of ruin. When all is orderly, he does not forget that disorder may come. Thus his person is not endangered, and his States and all their clans are preserved. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1244:Please stop waiting for a better and more appropriate time to become happy and focus on the moment you live in. Happiness is not an arrival, it is the journey itself. Many people seek for happiness above the height of human beings, some below. Yet, happiness is exactly at the exact height of human beings. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1245:The Sayings of Confucius: “At fifteen I thought only of study; at thirty I began playing my role; at forty I was sure of myself; at fifty I was conscious of my position in the universe; at sixty I was no longer argumentative; and now at seventy I can follow my heart’s desire without violating custom.”1 ~ Grace Lee Boggs, #NFDB
1246:Today it is the Western democratic tradition that attracts and empowers people of all continents, creeds, and colors. When the Chinese students cried and died for democracy in Tiananmen Square, they brought with them not representations of Confucius or Buddha but a model of the Statue of Liberty. ~ Arthur M Schlesinger Jr, #NFDB
1247:If the people be led by laws, and uniformity sought to be given them by punishments, they will try to avoid the punishment, but have no sense of shame. 2. 'If they be led by virtue, and uniformity sought to be given them by the rules of propriety, they will have the sense of shame, and moreover will become good. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1248:Listen widely to remove your doubts and be careful when speaking about the rest and your mistakes will be few. See much and get rid of what is dangerous and be careful in acting on the rest and your causes for regret will be few. Speaking without fault, acting without causing regret: 'upgrading' consists in this. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1249:When we have intelligence resulting from sincerity, this condition is to be ascribed to nature; when we have sincerity resulting from intelligence, this condition is to be ascribed to instruction. But given the sincerity, and there shall be the intelligence; given the intelligence, and there shall be the sincerity. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1250:The Master said, A gentleman, in his plans, thinks of the Way; he does not think how he is going to make a living. Even farming sometimes entails 5 times of shortage; and even learning may incidentally lead to high pay. But a gentleman's anxieties concern the progress of the Way; he has no anxiety concerning poverty. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1251:Wishing to regulate their families, they first cultivated their persons. Wishing to cultivate their persons, they first rectified their hearts. Wishing to rectify their hearts, they first sought to be sincere in their thoughts. Wishing to be sincere in their thoughts, they first extended to the utmost their knowledge. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1252:Listen to all that you can – then, if you forget the deficiencies and speak about the rest cautiously, you avoid trouble. See all that you can – then, if you forget the perilous and act upon the rest cautiously, you’ll avoid regret. In speech avoid trouble, in action avoid regret – then rewards will come of themselves. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1253:What you love not in your superiors, do not to your inferiors; what you reprove in your inferiors, do not to your superiors; what you hate in those who precede you, do not to those who follow you...What you would not receive from those on your right, cast not upon those on your left…Let this be the rule of your conduct. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1254:Be faithful and true of word; let thy walk be plain and lowly: thou wilt get on, though in savage land. If thy words be not faithful and true, thy walk plain and lowly, wilt thou get on, though in thine own home? Standing, see these words ranged before thee; driving, see them written upon the yoke. Then thou wilt get on. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1255:Though Confucius served the Duke of Lu, a Chinese state, he made many enemies with the nobles of the land. His views antagonized the powerful nobles, who wanted the Duke to be a puppet in their hands. Confucius was exiled from the State of Lu for more than two decades. He lived in the countryside, spreading his teachings. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1256:All things are nourished together without their injuring one another. The courses of the seasons, and of the sun and moon, are pursued without any collision among them. The smaller energies are like river currents; the greater energies are seen in mighty transformations. It is this which makes heaven and earth so great. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1257:First, there was Confucius. Then, the sayings of Chairman Mao. And now the pithy, ironic, and humorous insights of Ai Weiwei. I thoroughly enjoyed reading this collection, which reflects a well-developed philosophy as well as a keen understanding of the Chinese Communist system. This is China made easy and interesting. ~ Jerome A Cohen, #NFDB
1258:My problem with that is I don’t believe God cares what we do. Everything is equally relevant and irrelevant to God. A religion is nothing more than a political party organized around some guy’s moral views, Confucius, Buddha, Jesus, Mohammed, like conventional political parties are organized around some guy’s economic views. ~ John Sandford, #NFDB
1259:There is a growing interest in Confucianism in China and other parts of the world. More and more followers of Confucianism are advocating a deeper study of his philosophies. Confucius' ideals stand true even today. His philosophy on how to be a Junzi or the perfect gentleman is based on the simple ideology of love and tolerance. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1260:Sincerity becomes apparent. From being apparent, it becomes manifest. From being manifest, it becomes brilliant. Brilliant, it affects others. Affecting others, they are changed by it. Changed by it, they are transformed. It is only he who is possessed of the most complete sincerity that can exist under heaven, who can transform. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1261:It is true that we shall not be able to reach perfection, but in our struggle toward it we shall strengthen our characters and give stability to our ideas, so that, whilst ever advancing calmly in the same direction, we shall be rendered capable of applying the faculties with which we have been gifted to the best possible account. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1262:Great as heaven and earth are, men still find some things in them with which to be dissatisfied. Thus it is that, were the superior man to speak of his way in all its greatness, nothing in the world would be found able to embrace it, and were he to speak of it in its minuteness, nothing in the world would be found able to split it. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1263:There are many reasons that universities in East Asia have not reached the positions that they had hoped for. After all, we must remember that modern East Asia did not begin with Confucius. In fact the experience of modern education in East Asia is relatively short and granted that time scale, many universities are doing fine. ~ Henry Rosovsky, #NFDB
1264:Lead the people with administrative injunctions and put them in their place with penal law, and they will avoid punishments but will be without a sense of shame. Lead them with excellence and put them in their place through roles and ritual practices, and in addition to developing a sense of shame, they will order themselves harmoniously ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1265:A township where one primitive forest waves above while another primitive forest rots below,--such a town is fitted to raise not only corn and potatoes, but poets and philosophers for the coming ages. In such a soil grew Homer and Confucius and the rest, and out of such a wilderness comes the Reformer eating locusts and wild honey. ~ Henry David Thoreau, #NFDB
1266:A township where one primitive forest waves above, while another primitive forest rots below,—such a town is fitted to raise not only corn and potatoes, but poets and philosophers for the coming ages. In such a soil grew Homer and Confucius and the rest, and out of such a wilderness comes the Reformer eating locusts and wild honey. ~ Henry David Thoreau, #NFDB
1267:What most distinguishes Confucius from other founders is that he inculcated a strict code of ethics, which has been respected ever since, but associated with very little religious dogma, which gave place to complete theological scepticism in the countless generations of Chinese literati who revered his memory and administered the Empire. ~ Bertrand Russell, #NFDB
1268:There are some with whom we may study in common, but we shall find them unable to go along with us to principles. Perhaps we may go on with them to principles, but we shall find them unable to get established in those along with us. Or if we may get so established along with them, we shall find them unable to weigh occurring events along with us. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1269:Some are born with knowledge, some derive it from study, and some acquire it only after a painful realization of their ignorance. But the knowledge being possessed, it comes to the same thing. Some study with a natural ease, some from a desire for advantages, and some by strenuous effort. But the achievement being made, it comes to the same thing. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1270:Behave when away from home as though you were in the presence of an honored guest. Employ the people as though you were assisting at an important sacrifice. Do not do to others what you would not like yourself. Then there will be no feelings of opposition to you, whether it is the affairs of a state that you are handling or the affairs of a family. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1271:Jaspers became fascinated by the fact that figures like Pythagoras (570–495 BC), the Buddha (563–483 BC), and Confucius (551–479 BC) were all contemporaries, and that Greece, India, and China, in that period, all saw a sudden efflorescence of debate between contending intellectual schools, each group apparently unaware of the others’ existence. ~ David Graeber, #NFDB
1272:Therefore only through education does one come to be dissatisfied with his own knowledge, and only through teaching others does one come to realize the uncomfortable inadequacy of his knowledge. Being dissatisfied with his own knowledge, one then realizes that the trouble lies with himself, and realizing the uncomfortable inadequacy of his knowledger. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1273:Chinese dragons are considered benevolent, much like ruler to subject, as long as the people were loyal to them. This is a Confucius principle. Japanese dragons, however, were believed to kill innocent people to force villages to give their maidens to them as food. - Kailin Gow On the Dragon King in Amazon Lee Adventures in China (Discussion Question) ~ Kailin Gow, #NFDB
1274:There are three friendships which are advantageous, and three which are injurious. Friendship with the upright; friendship with the sincere; and friendship with the man of much observation: these are advantageous. Friendship with the man of specious airs; friendship with the insinuatingly soft; and friendship with the glib-tongued: these are injurious. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1275:Chang nodded sagely. “My father insisted on it. He said, ‘You may be proud of being a scanner. I am sorry you are not a man. Conceal your defects.’ So I tried. I wanted to tell the old boy about the up-and-out, and what we did there, but it did not matter. He said, ‘Airplanes were good enough for Confucius, and they are for me too.’ The old humbug! ~ Cordwainer Smith, #NFDB
1276:The Master said, The case is like that of someone raising a mound. If he stops working, the fact that it perhaps needed only one more basketful makes no difference; I stay where I am. Whereas even if he has not got beyond leveling the ground, but is still at work, the fact that he has only tilted one basketful of earth makes no difference. I go to help him. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1277:If language is not correct, then what is said is not what is meant; if what is said is not what is meant, then what must be done remains undone; if this remains undone, morals and art will deteriorate; if justice goes astray, the people will stand about in helpless confusion. Hence there must be no arbitrariness in what is said. This matters above everything. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1278:If a man withdraws his mind from the love of beauty, and applies it as sincerely to the love of the virtuous; if, in serving his parents, he can exert his utmost strength; if, in serving his prince, he can devote his life; if in his intercourse with his friends, his words are sincere - although men say that he has not learned, I will certainly say that he has. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1279:When abroad, behaveto everyone as if interviewing an honored guest; in directing the people, act as if you were assisting at a great sacrafice; DO NOT DO TO OTHERS AS YOU WOULD NOT LIKE DONE TO YOURSELF: so there will be no murmuring against you in the country, and none in the family; your public life will arouse no ill-will nor your private life any resentment. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1280:Some are born with knowledge, some derive it from study, and some acquire it only after a painful realization of their ignorance.
But the knowledge being possessed, it comes to the same thing.
Some study with a natural ease, some from a desire for advantages, and some by strenuous effort.
But the achievement being made, it comes to the same thing. ~ Confucius,#NFDB
1281:The Master said, At fifteen I set my heart upon learning. At thirty, I had planted my feet firm upon the ground. At forty, I no longer suffered from perplexities. At fifty, I knew what were the biddings of Heaven. At sixty, I heard them with docile ear. At seventy, I could follow the dictates of my own heart; for what I desired no longer overstepped the boundaries of righ. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1282:The Master said, “Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.” The Master said, “The study of strange doctrines is injurious indeed!” The Master said, “Yu, shall I teach you what knowledge is? When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it;-this is knowledge. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1283:At fifteen I set my heart upon learning.
At thirty, I had planted my feet firm upon the ground.
At forty, I no longer suffered from perplexities.
At fifty, I knew what were the biddings of Heaven.
At sixty, I heard them with docile ear.
At seventy, I could follow the dictates of my own heart; for what I desired no longer overstepped the boundaries of right. ~ Confucius,#NFDB
1284:Tzu-chang[21] asked whether we can know what is to be ten generations hence. The Master said, The Yin[22] took over the manners of the Hsia; the harm and the good that they did them can be known. The Chou took over the manners of the Yin; the harm and the good that they did them can be known. And we may know what shall be, even an hundred generations hence, whoever follows Chou. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1285:We can no longer rely on the external teachings of Buddha, Confucius, or Christ. The era of organized religion controlling every aspect of life is over. No single religion has all the answers. Construction of shrine and temple buildings is not enough. Establish yourself as a living buddha image. We all should be transformed into goddesses of compassion or victorious buddhas. ~ Morihei Ueshiba, #NFDB
1286:Wishing to regulate their families, they first cultivated their persons. Wishing to cultivate their persons, they first rectified their hearts. Wishing to rectify their hearts, they first sought to be sincere in their thoughts. Wishing to be sincere in their thoughts, they first extended to the utmost their knowledge. Such extension of knowledge lay in the investigation of things. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1287:Do you know someone you would like to change and regulate and improve? Good! That is fine. I am all in favor of it. But why not begin on yourself? From a purely selfish standpoint, that is a lot more profitable than trying to improve others—yes, and a lot less dangerous. “Don’t complain about the snow on your neighbor’s roof,” said Confucius, “when your own doorstep is unclean.” When ~ Dale Carnegie, #NFDB
1288:As Confucius once said, 'He who does nothing is the one who does nothing.'" Gabby pondered the words, the furrowed her brow. "did Confucius really say that?" Sunglasses in place, Stephanie managed the tiniest of shrugs. "No, but who cared? The point is, they handled, and most likely they found some sort of self-satisfaction in their industrious-ness. Who am I to deprive them of that? ~ Nicholas Sparks, #NFDB
1289:I do not remember anything which Confucius has said directly respecting man's "origin, purpose, and destiny." He was more practical than that. He is full of wisdom applied to human relations,--to the private life,--the family,--government, etc. It is remarkable that, according to his own account, the sum and substance of his teaching is, as you know, to do as you would be done by. ~ Henry David Thoreau, #NFDB
1290:Be sincere and true to your word, serious and careful in your actions; and you will get along even among barbarians, But if you are not sincere and untrustworthy in your speech, frivolous and careless in your actions, how will you get along even among your own neighbors? When stand, see these principles in front of you; in your carriage see them on the yoke. Then you may be sure to get along. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1291:As Confucius once said, 'He who does nothing is the one who does nothing.'"
Gabby pondered the words, the furrowed her brow. "did Confucius really say that?"
Sunglasses in place, Stephanie managed the tiniest of shrugs. "No, but who cared? The point is, they handled, and most likely they found some sort of self-satisfaction in their industrious-ness. Who am I to deprive them of that? ~ Nicholas Sparks,#NFDB
1292:In ancient times, those who wished to illuminate the world with virtue first brought order to their nations. Wishing to order well their nations, they first harmonized their families. Wishing to harmonize their families, they first cultivated themselves. Wishing to cultivate themselves, they first rectified their minds. Those who wished to rectify their minds first made their intentions sincere. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1293:Every piece of marble has a statue in it waiting to be released by a person of sufficient skill to chip away the unnecessary parts. Just as the sculptor is to the marble, so is education to the soul. It releases it. For only educated people are free people. You cannot create a statue by smashing the marble with a hammer, and you cannot by the force of arms release the spirit or the soul of people. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1294:...the history of early-medieval Arabia is nearly all legend. Like Buddha, Confucius, Jesus, and other founders of patriarchal religions, Mohammed lacks real verification. There is no reliable information about his life or teachings. Most stories about him are as apocryphal as the story that his coffin hangs forever in mid-air "between heaven and earth," like the bodies of ancient sacred kings. ~ Barbara G Walker, #NFDB
1295:Would you say that any one sacred book is superior to all others in the world? ... I say the New Testament, after that, I should place the Koran, which in its moral teachings, is hardly more than a later edition of the New Testament. Then would follow according to my opinion the Old Testament, the Southern Buddhist Tripitaka, the Tao-te-king of Laotze, the Kings of Confucius, the Veda and the Avesta. ~ Max Muller, #NFDB
1296:Confucius was not so much a philsopher as a proto-ideologist: what interested him was not metaphysical Truths but rather a harmonious social order within which individuals could lead happy and ethical lives. He was the first to outline clearly what one is tempted to call the elementary scene of ideology, its zero-level, which consists in asserting the (nameless) authority of some substantial Tradition. ~ Slavoj Zizek, #NFDB
1297:The Master said, 'Can men refuse to assent to the words of strict admonition? But it is reforming the conduct because of them which is valuable. Can men refuse to be pleased with words of gentle advice? But it is unfolding their aim which is valuable. If a man be pleased with these words, but does not unfold their aim, and assents to those, but does not reform his conduct, I can really do nothing with him. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1298:On matters beyond his ken a gentleman speaks with caution. If names are not right, words are misused. When words are misused, affairs go wrong. When affairs go wrong, courtesy and music droop, law and justice fail. And when law and justice fail them, a people can move neither hand nor foot. So a gentleman must be ready to put names in speech, to put words into deeds. A gentleman is nowise careless of words. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1299:To be fond of learning is to draw close to wisdom. To practice with vigor is to draw close to benevolence. To know the sense of shame is to draw close to courage. He who knows these three things knows how to cultivate his own character. Knowing how to cultivate his own character, he knows how to govern other men. Knowing how to govern other men, he knows how to govern the world, its states, and its families. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1300:When the head of state of family thinks first of gouging out an income, he must perforce do it through small men; and even if they are clever at their job, if one employ such inferior characters in state and family business the tilled fields will go rack swamp and ruin and edged calamities will mount up to the full.... This is the meaning of: A state does not profit by profits - Pound's translation of Confucius ~ Ezra Pound, #NFDB
1301:There are 3 elements essential in the matters of the State, Food, Military equipment, and Confidence of the people in the ruler. Of these 3, Military Equipment is the least important, Food being the 2nd important, and Confidence of the people being the MOST important. All men rather die of starvation than in war, but nevertheless all men do die of old age. Lacking in Confidence from the people, a state cannot survive. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1302:How great is the path proper to the Sage! Like overflowing water, it sends forth and nourishes all things, and rises up to the height of heaven. All-complete is its greatness! It embraces the three hundred rules of ceremony, and the three thousand rules of demeanor. It waits for the proper man, and then it is trodden. Hence it is said, 'Only by perfect virtue can the perfect path, in all its courses, be made a fact.' ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1303:It is bad when one thing becomes two. One should not look for anything else in the Way of the Samurai. It is the same for anything that is called a Way. Therefore, it is inconsistent to hear something of the Way of Confucius or the Way of the Buddha, and say that this is the Way of the Samurai. If one understands things in this manner, he should be able to hear about all Ways and be more and more in accord with his own. ~ Yamamoto Tsunetomo, #NFDB
1304:Even though it is almost impossible to attribute with certainty any specific mathematical achievements either to Pythagoras himself or to his followers, there is no question that they have been responsible for a mingling of mathematics, philosophy of life, and religion unparalleled in history. In this respect it is perhaps interesting to note the historical coincidence that Pythagoras was a contemporary of Buddha and Confucius. ~ Mario Livio, #NFDB
1305:The gentleman has nine cares. In seeing he is careful to see clearly; in hearing he is careful to hear distinctly; in his looks he is careful to be kind, in his manner to be respectful, in his words to be sincere, in his work to be diligent. When in doubt he is careful to ask for information; when angry he has a care for the consequences; and when he sees a chance for gain, he thinks carefully whether the pursuits of it would be right. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1306:As the great Confucius said, "The one who would be in constant happiness must frequently change." Flow. But we keep looking back, don't we? We cling to things in the past and cling to things in the present...Do you want to enjoy a symphony? Don't hold on to a few bars of the music. Don't hold on to a couple of notes. Let them pass, let them flow. The whole enjoyment of a symphony lies in your readiness to allow the notes to pass. ~ Anthony de Mello, #NFDB
1307:The wise men of antiquity, when they wished to make the whole world peaceful and happy, first put their own States into proper order. Before putting their States into proper order, they regulated their own families. Before regulating their families, they regulated themselves. Before regulating themselves, they tried to be sincere in their thoughts. Before being sincere in their thoughts, they tried to see things exactly as they really were. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1308:Shu required that “all day and every day” we looked into our own hearts, discovered what caused us pain, and then refrained, under all circumstances, from inflicting that distress upon other people. It demanded that people no longer put themselves into a special, separate category but constantly related their own experience to that of others. Confucius was the first to promulgate the Golden Rule. For Confucius it had transcendent value. ~ Karen Armstrong, #NFDB
1309:There are three sorts of pleasures which are advantageous, and three which are injurious. Finding pleasure in the discriminating study of ceremonies and music, finding pleasure in discussing the good points in the conduct of others, and finding pleasure in having many wise friends, these are advantageous. But finding pleasure in profligate enjoyments, finding pleasure in idle gadding about, and finding pleasure in feasting, these are injurious. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1310:Things being investigated, knowledge became complete. Their knowledge being complete, their thoughts were sincere. Their thoughts being sincere, their hearts were then rectified. Their hearts being rectified, their persons were cultivated. Their persons being cultivated, their families were regulated. Their families being regulated, their States were rightly governed. Their States being rightly governed, the whole kingdom was made tranquil and happy. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1311:Esenţialul este să numeşti corect lucrurile. Dacă denumirile nu sînt corecte, cuvintele nu se mai potrivesc. Dacă cuvintele nu se mai potrivesc, treburile statului merg prost. Dacă treburile statului merg prost, nici riturile şi muzica nu mai pot înflori. Dacă riturile şi muzica nu mai pot înflori, judecăţile şi pedepsele încetează să mai fie drepte. Dacă judecăţile şi pedepsele încetează să mai fie drepte, poporul nu mai ştie cum trebuie să se poarte. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1312:Confucius, the Chinese philosopher, born 551 B. C., said: "Obey Heaven, and follow the orders of Him who governs it. Love your neighbor as yourself. Do to another what you would he should do unto you; and do not unto another what you would should not be done unto you; thou only needest this law alone, it is the foundation and principle of all the rest. Acknowledge thy benefits by the return of other benefits, but never revenge injuries." [415:1] ~ Thomas William Doane, #NFDB
1313:If Confucius can serve as the Patron Saint of Chinese education, let me propose Socrates as his equivalent in a Western educational context - a Socrates who is never content with the initial superficial response, but is always probing for finer distinctions, clearer examples, a more profound form of knowing. Our concept of knowledge has changed since classical times, but Socrates has provided us with a timeless educational goal - ever deeper understanding. ~ Howard Gardner, #NFDB
1314:If Confucius can serve as the Patron Saint of Chinese education, let me propose Socrates as his equivalent in a Western educational context - a Socrates who is never content with the initial superficial response, but is always probing for finer distinctions, clearer examples, a more profound form of knowing. Our concept of knowledge has changed since classical times, but Socrates has provided us with a timeless educational goal - ever deeper understanding. ~ Howard Gardner, #NFDB
1315:When things are investigated, then true knowledge is achieved; when true knowledge is achieved, then the will becomes sincere; when the will is sincere, then the heart is set right ; when the heart is set right, then the personal life is cultivated; when the personal life is cultivated, then the family life is regulated; when the family life is regulated, then the national life is orderly; and when the national life is orderly, then there is peace in this world. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1316:Tzu Chang asked Confucius about jen. Confucius said, "If you can practice these five things with all the people, you can be called jen." Tzu Chang asked what they were. Confucius said, "Courtesy, generosity, honesty, persistence, and kindness. If you are courteous, you will not be disrespected; if you are generous, you will gain everything. If you are honest, people will rely on you. If you are persistent you will get results. If you are kind, you can employ people. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1317:THE FIVE EXCELLENT PRACTICES OF PILGRIMAGES Inspired by a fifth-century conversation between Zi Zhang and Confucius about the practices of wise rulers in The Analects, here are five excellent practices for travelers on sacred journeys: Practice the arts of attention and listening.
Practice renewing yourself every day.
Practice meandering toward the center of every place.
Practice the ritual of reading sacred texts.
Practice gratitude and praise-singing. ~ Phil Cousineau,#NFDB
1318:As the innocent infant relies upon the mother for sustenance, so the innocent wanderer, following his native compassion and bliss, relies upon the natural intelligence of life to sustain him. There are various Ways. There is the Way of salvation by the law of Buddha, the Way of Confucius governing the Way of learning, the Way of healing as a doctor, as a poet teaching the Way of Waka, tea, archery, and many arts and skills. Each man practices as he feels inclined. ~ Miyamoto Musashi, #NFDB
1319:Here is an example of Confucius sayings: "It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop." In a few words, Confucius teaches us about patience, perseverance, discipline, and hard work. But if you probe further, you will see more layers. Confucius' philosophies have significantly influenced spiritual and social thought. His views bear insight and depth of wisdom. You can apply his teachings in every sphere of life. Confucius' profound teachings are based on humanism. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1320:I want you to meet Jonathan Swift, the author of that evil political book, Gulliver’s Travels! And this other fellow is Charles Darwin, and this one is Schopenhauer, and this one is Einstein, and this one here at my elbow is Mr Albert Schweitzer, a very kind philosopher indeed. Here we all are, Montag. Aristophanes and Mahatma Gandhi and Gautama Buddha and Confucius and Thomas Love Peacock and Thomas Jefferson and Mr Lincoln, if you please. We are also Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. ~ Ray Bradbury, #NFDB
1321:The Master said, "Wealth and honor are things that all people desire, and yet unless they are acquired in the proper way I will not abide them. Poverty and disgrace are things that all people hate, and yet unless they are avoided in the proper way I will not despise them. If the gentleman abandons ren, how can he be worthy of that name? The gentleman does not violate ren even for the amount of time required to eat a meal. Even in times of urgency or distress, he does not depart from it." ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1322:Chong said, "Do yourself a favor, Morg. Next time you're staring at a girl's boobs, look up. You'll be shocked to learn it, but there's going to be a face up there. Nose, mouth, eyes. And behind the eyes is an actual person."
"Yes, Confucius, I know. Girls are people. Wisom of the ages. Nix is a girl and therefore a person. I know that."
"Really?" said Chong as he watched Benny vanish around a corner. "Maybe if you looked her in the eyes, she'd know that you know. ~ Jonathan Maberry,#NFDB
1323:Love of goodness without love of learning degenerates into simple-mindedness. Love of knowledge without love of learning degenerates into utter lack of principle. Love of faithfulness without love of learning degenerates into injurious disregard of consequences. Love of uprightness without love of learning degenerates into harshness. Love of courage without love of learning degenerates into insubordination. Love of strong character without love of learning degenerates into mere recklessness. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1324:Tzu Chang asked Confucius about jen. Confucius said, "If you can practice these five things with all the people, you can be called jen."
Tzu Chang asked what they were.
Confucius said, "Courtesy, generosity, honesty, persistence, and kindness.
If you are courteous, you will not be disrespected;
if you are generous, you will gain everything.
If you are honest, people will rely on you.
If you are persistent you will get results.
If you are kind, you can employ people. ~ Confucius,#NFDB
1325:The nobler sort of man emphasizes the good qualities in others, and does not accentuate the bad. The inferior does the reverse. . . . The nobler sort of man pays special attention to nine points. He is anxious to see clearly, to hear distinctly, to be kindly in his looks, respectful in his demeanor, conscientious in his speech, earnest in his affairs. When in doubt, he is careful to inquire; when in anger, he thinks of the consequences; when offered an opportunity for gain, he thinks only of his duty. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1326:Yee Bow
They got me into the Sunday-school
In Spoon River
And tried to get me to drop Confucius for Jesus.
I could have been no worse off
If I had tried to get them to drop Jesus for Confucius.
For, without any warning, as if it were a prank,
And sneaking up behind me, Harry Wiley,
The minister's son, caved my ribs into my lungs,
With a blow of his fist.
Now I shall never sleep with my ancestors in Pekin,
And no children shall worship at my grave.
~ Edgar Lee Masters,#NFDB
1327:Revenge may be exacted a hundred times over in one sleepless night. The impulse, the dreaming intention, is human, normal, and we should forgive ourselves. But the raised hand, the actual violent enactment, is cursed. The maths says so. There’ll be no reversion to the status quo ante, no balm, no sweet relief, or none that lasts. Only a second crime. Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves, Confucius said. Revenge unstitches a civilisation. It’s a reversion to constant, visceral fear. ~ Ian McEwan, #NFDB
1328:I have never seen one who really loves goodness or one who really hates wickedness. One who really loves goodness will not place anything above it. One who really hates wickedness will practice goodness in such a way that wickedness will have no chance to get at him. Is there anyone who has devoted his whole strength to doing good for even as long as a single day? I have not seen anyone give up such an attempt because he had not the strength to go on. Perhaps there is such a case, but I have never seen it. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1329:What is God-given is called nature; to follow nature is called Tao (the Way); to cultivate the way is called culture. Before joy, anger, sadness and happiness are expressed, they are called the inner self; when they are expressed to the proper degree, they are called harmony. The inner self is the correct foundation of the world, and the harmony is the illustrious Way. When a man has achieved the inner self and harmony, the heaven and earth are orderly and the myriad of things are nourished and grow thereby. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1330:Have not all theists painted their Deity as the god of love and goodness? Yet after thousands of years of such preachments the gods remain deaf to the agony of the human race. Confucius cares not for the poverty, squalor and misery of the people of China. Buddha remains undisturbed in his philosophical indifference to the famine and starvation of outraged Hindoos; Jahve continues deaf to the bitter cry of Israel; while Jesus refuses to rise from the dead against his Christians who are butchering each other. ~ Emma Goldman, #NFDB
1331:The Master said, “Wealth and honor are things that all people desire, and yet unless they are acquired in the proper way I will not abide them. Poverty and disgrace are things that all people hate, and yet unless they are avoided in the proper way I will not despise them.
“If the gentleman abandons ren, how can he be worthy of that name? The gentleman does not violate ren even for the amount of time required to eat a meal. Even in times of urgency or distress, he does not depart from it.”
(Analects 4.5) ~ Confucius,#NFDB
1332:The Master said, "I have not seen a person who loved virtue, or one
who hated what was not virtuous. He who loved virtue, would esteem
nothing above it. He who hated what is not virtuous, would practice
virtue in such a way that he would not allow anything that is not
virtuous to approach his person.
"Is any one able for one day to apply his strength to virtue? I have
not seen the case in which his strength would be insufficient.
"Should there possibly be any such case, I have not seen it. ~ Confucius,#NFDB
1333:And someday there will be a great awakening when we know that this is all a great dream. Yet the stupid believe they are awake, busily and brightly assuming they understand things, calling this man ruler, that one herdsman—how dense! Confucius and you both are dreaming! And when I say you are dreaming, I am dreaming, too. Words like these will be labeled the Supreme Swindle. Yet after ten thousand generations, a great sage may appear who will know their meaning, and it will still be as though he appeared with astonishing speed. ~ Zhuangzi, #NFDB
1334:A village in a country which is taking pains to become altogether standardized and pure, which aspires to succeed Victorian England as the chief mediocrity of the world, is no longer merely provincial, no longer downy and restful in its leaf-shadowed ignorance. It is a force seeking to conquer the earth. Sure of itself, it bullies other civilizations, as a traveling salesman in a brown derby conquers the wisdom of China and tacks advertisements of cigarettes over arches for centuries dedicated to the sayings of Confucius. ~ Sinclair Lewis, #NFDB
1335:When Confucius and the Indian Scriptures were made known, no claim to monopoly of ethical wisdom could be thought of... It is only within this century [the 1800 's] that England and America discovered that their nursery tales were old German and Scandinavian stories; and now it appears that they came from India, and are therefore the property of all the nations. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, quoted in Londhe, S. (2008). A tribute to Hinduism: Thoughts and wisdom spanning continents and time about India and her culture. New Delhi: Pragun Publication., #NFDB
1336:I am Plato's Republic. Mr. Simmons is Marcus. I want you to meet Jonathan Swift, the author of that evil political book, Gulliver's Travels! And this other fellow is Charles Darwin, and-this one is Schopenhauer, and this one is Einstein, and this one here at my elbow is Mr. Albert Schweitzer, a very kind philosopher indeed. Here we all are, Montag. Aristophanes and Mahatma Gandhi and Gautama Buddha and Confucius and Thomas Love Peacock and Thomas Jefferson and Mr. Lincoln, if you please. We are also Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. ~ Ray Bradbury, #NFDB
1337:When asked the best piece of advice he’d give a budding entrepreneur, his answer was, “Know there will be dark days. There will be more dark days than good days, but the few good days are really, really good!” You will get knocked down. Know that it’s okay. It’s okay that it hurts a bit, too. And know that it’s okay to give yourself some recovery time. As Confucius said, “Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in getting up every time we do.” Don’t worry about getting knocked down—just try to reduce the time you stay there. ~ Darren Hardy, #NFDB
1338:According to tradition, the originator of Taoism, Lao-tzu, was an older contemporary of Kung Fu-tzu, or Confucius, who died in 479 B.C.1 Lao-tzu is said to have been the author of the Tao Te Ching, a short book of aphorisms, setting forth the principles of the Tao and its power or virtue (Te e). But traditional Chinese philosophy ascribes both Taoism and Confucianism to a still earlier source, to a work which lies at the very foundation of Chinese thought and culture, dating anywhere from 3000 to 1200 B.C. This is the I Ching, or Book of Changes. ~ Alan W Watts, #NFDB
1339:In the ancient Book of History, upon which Confucius himself based his philosophy, it is said...
The people must be cherished,
The people must not be oppressed,
The people are the root of the country.
If the root is firm, the country is tranquil.
And you remember, she continued, that, when asked which was most important to a state, food, weapons or the trust of the people, the sage replied that weapons could be given up, and even food be sacrificed, but the state itself would be destroyed if the people had no confidence in it. ~ Pearl S Buck,#NFDB
1340:Confucius, the philosopher and politician who was born in the sixth century B.C.E. He acquired a place in Chinese history akin to that of Socrates in the West, in part because his ideology encouraged order and loyalty. “There is government,” Confucius said, “when the prince is prince, and the minister is minister; when the father is father, and the son is son.” Confucius linked morality to the strength of the state: “He who exercises government by means of virtue may be compared to the North Star, which holds its place while all other stars turn around it. ~ Evan Osnos, #NFDB
1341:There are processes, nuclear waste build-up, urbanization, land disturbance, there are processes which, if allowed to run on indefinitely, would wreck the whole system and pitch it into chaos. Buy Confucius said "No tree grows to heaven," and what he meant by that was: it's fruitless to project any process to infinity because any process projected to infinity creates some kind of catastrophic scenario. If no fruit flies died in six months the Earth would spin out of its orbit from the weight of fruit flies. Now, I don't thing that's true. (laughs) But what an image! ~ Terence McKenna, #NFDB
1342:place where man laughs, sings, picks flowers, chases butterflies and pets birds, makes love with maidens, and plays with children. Here he spontaneously reveals his nature, the base as well as the noble. Here also he buries his sorrows and difficulties and cherishes his ideals and hopes. It is in the garden that men discover themselves. Indeed one discovers not only his real self but also his ideal self?he returns to his youth. Inevitably the garden is made the scene of man's merriment, escapades, romantic abandonment, spiritual awakening or the perfection of his finer self. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1343:There is a certain proper and luxurious way of lying in bed. Confucius, that great artist of life, "never lay straight" in bed, "like a corpse", but always curled up on one side. I believe one of the greatest pleasures of life is to curl up one's legs in bed. The posture of the arms is also very important, in order to reach the greatest degree of aesthetic pleasure and mental power. I believe the best posture is not lying flat on the bed, but being upholstered with big soft pillows at an angle of thirty degrees with either one arm or both arms placed behind the back of one's head. ~ Lin Yutang, #NFDB
1344:When the perfect order prevails, the world is like a home shared by all. Leaders are capable and virtuous. Everyone loves and respects their own parents and children as well as the parents and children of others. The old are cared for, adults have jobs, children are nourished and educated. There is a means of support for all those who are disabled or find themselves alone in the world. Everyone has an appropriate role to play in the family and society. Devotion to public duty leaves no place for idleness. Scheming for ill gain is unknown. Sharing displaces selfishness and materialism. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1345:Not only were the Jews expecting the birth of a Great King, a Wise Man and a Saviour, but Plato and Socrates also spoke of the Logos and of the Universal Wise Man 'yet to come'. Confucius spoke of 'the Saint'; the Sibyls, of a 'Universal King'; the Greek dramatist, of a saviour and redeemer to unloose man from the 'primal eldest curse'. All these were on the Gentile side of the expectation. What separates Christ from all men is that first He was expected; even the Gentiles had a longing for a deliverer, or redeemer. This fact alone distinguishes Him from all other religious leaders. ~ Fulton J Sheen, #NFDB
1346:And people have emphasized the importance of compassion, not just because it sounds good, but because it works. People have found that when they have implemented the Golden Rule as Confucius said, "all day and every day," not just a question of doing your good deed for the day and then returning to a life of greed and egotism, but to do it all day and every day, you dethrone yourself from the center of your world, put another there, and you transcend yourself. And it brings you into the presence of what's been called God, Nirvana, Rama, Tao. Something that goes beyond what we know in our ego-bound existence. ~ Karen Armstrong, #NFDB
1347:China is, in fact, the only country in the world to be ruled for hundreds of years, not by the nobility, nor by soldiers, nor even by the priesthood, but by scholars. No matter where you came from, or whether you were rich or poor, as long as you gained high marks in your exams you could become an official. The highest post went to the person with the highest marks. But the exams were far from easy. You had to be able to write thousands of characters, and you can imagine how hard that is. What is more, you had to know an enormous number of ancient books and all the rules and teachings of Confucius and the other ancient sages off by heart. ~ E H Gombrich, #NFDB
1348:What was standing in my way was my own self-awareness. If I can begin this fasting of the heart, self-awareness will vanish. Then I will be free from limitation and preoccupation I Is that what you mean?” “Yes,” said Confucius, “that’s it! If you can do this, you will be able to go among men in their world without upsetting them. You will not enter into conflict with their ideal image of themselves. If they will listen, sing them a song. If not, keep silent. Don’t try to break down their door. Don’t try out new medicines on them. Just be there among them, because there is nothing else for you to be but one of them. Then you may have success! ~ Thomas Merton, #NFDB
1349:The son of Confucius once said to him: “I apply myself with diligence to every kind of study, neglect nothing that could render me clever and brilliant; but I do not advance.” “Omit some of your pursuits,” replied Confucius, “and you will get on better. Among those who travel on foot, have you ever seen any who run? It is essential to do everything in order, and to grasp that which is within the reach of your arm; otherwise, you give yourself useless trouble. Those who, like yourself, desire to do everything in one day, do nothing to the end of their lives, while others who steadily adhere to one pursuit find that they have accomplished their purpose. ~ Fulton J Sheen, #NFDB
1350:There is only one Ethics, as there is only one geometry. But the majority of men, it will be said, are ignorant of geometry. Yes, but as soon as they begin to apply themselves a little to that science, all are in agreement. Cultivators, workmen, artisans have not gone through courses in ethics; they have not read Cicero or Aristotle, but the moment they begin to think on the subject they become, without knowing it, the disciples of Cicero. The Indian dyer, the Tartar shepherd and the English sailor know what is just and what is injust. Confucius did not invent a system of ethics as one invents a system of physics. He had discovered it in the heart of all mankind. ~ Voltaire, #NFDB
1351:I grew up thinking the only scriptures on earth were those inspired by the Hebrew prophets of the Old Testament, the words and letters of Jesus and his apostles, and the scriptures of the Restoration. But how could the God I believed was the loving God of all the earth not speak somehow to everyone else? For years I wrestled with this idea. Having now read the Chinese classics, certainly Confucius, but others as well, I believe I have found the scriptural infusion God gave the Chinese nation. Mencius is my favorite, I must admit, and I do not hesitate to call what he bestowed upon the world scripture--some of the most optimistic, holy writing the world has. ~ S Michael Wilcox, #NFDB
1352:There are who do not study or who, though they study, make no progress; let them not be discouraged. There are who put no questions or, when they do, cannot seize well the sense of the reply; let them not be discouraged. There are who can distinguish nothing or only confusedly; let them not be discouraged. There are who do not practice or have no solidity in their practice; let them not be discouraged. What another would do in one step, they will do in a hundred; what another would do in ten, they will do in a thousand. Assuredly, any man who follows this rule, however poorly enlightened he may be, will acquire intelligence and, however weak he may be, will acquire strength. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1353:If you govern a country by listening to the arguments of a multitude of people, the country will be in danger in no time at all. How do we know this is so? Lao-tzu emphasized flexibility, Confucius emphasized humaneness, Mo-tzu emphasized universality, the Keeper of the Pass emphasized purity, Lieh-tzu emphasized emptiness, Ch’en Ping emphasized equality, Yang Chu emphasized self, Sun Pin emphasized power, Wang Liao emphasized initiative, Ni Liang emphasized conformism. Using bells and drums is a means of unifying ears; making law and order uniform is a way of unifying minds. When the smart ones can’t be clever and the stupid ones can’t be clumsy, this is a means of unifying a mass. ~ Sun Tzu, #NFDB
1354:From the Vedas poured forth the streams of religious tradition which, flowing into various nations down through the ages, appear in the course of time as the single source of the numerous Scriptural writings of the world. Great saints and sages interpreting this ageless wisdom, wrote their commentaries or re-states in the terms of their own day the Vedic lore and the sacred tradition. In China Lao-Tze and Confucius were the interpreters, and their writings have become Scripture. In India Buddha was the great Emissary. In Persia it was Zoroaster. In Egypt, Akhnaton and Hermes. In Greece, Orpheus, Pythagoras and Plato. In Syria it was Moses, and later Jesus. ~ Manly P Hall, How to Understand Your Bible, #NFDB
1355:To take the last issue, the difficult issue, first. The first great Dharma systems, East and West, all arose, without exception, in the so-called “axial period” (Karl Jaspers), that rather extraordinary period beginning around the 6th century B.C. (plus or minus several centuries), a period that saw the birth of Gautama Buddha, Lao Tzu, Confucius, Moses, Plato, Patanjali—a period that would soon give way, over the next few centuries, to include Ashvaghosa, Nagarjuna, Plotinus, Jesus, Philo, Valentinus…. Virtually all of the major tenets of the perennial philosophy were first laid down during this amazing era (in Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism, Judaism, Christianity….) ~ Ken Wilber, Integral Life, right-bucks, #NFDB
1356:I am reminded of the apocryphal conversation between Confucius and Lao-tzu, when the former had been prating of universal love without the element of self. “What stuff!” cried Lao-tzu. “Does not universal love contradict itself? Is not your elimination of self a positive manifestation of self? Sir, if you would cause the world not to lose its source of nourishment: there is the universe, its regularity is unceasing; there are the sun and moon, their brightness is unceasing; there are the stars, their groupings never change; there are the birds and beasts, they flock together without varying; there are trees and shrubs, they grow upward without exception. Like these, accord with the Tao—with the way of ~ Alan W Watts, #NFDB
1357:When we talked about "A Modest Proposal" I felt like I was running circles around everybody. I understood that shit better than the professor 'cause he was just a fan. I wasn't an Irishman, but I knew how it felt to have someone standing over you, controlling your life and wanting to call it something else. From the people at the Christian Fellowship to First Academy to my parents to Confucius to thousands of years of ass-backwards Chinese thinking, I knew how it felt. Everything my parents did to me and their parents did to them was justified under the banner of Tradition, Family, and Culture. And when it wasn't them it was someone impressing Christianity onto me and when it wasn't Christianity it was whiteness. ~ Eddie Huang, #NFDB
1358:For this reason the gentleman will employ a man on a distant mission and observe his degree of loyalty, will employ him close at hand and observe his degree of respect. He will hand him troublesome affairs and observe how well he manages them, will suddenly ask his advice and observe how wisely he answers. He will exact some difficult promise from him and see how well he keeps it, turn over funds to him and see with what benevolence he dispenses them, inform him of the danger he is in and note how faithful he is to his duties. He will get him drunk with wine and observe how well he handles himself, place him in mixed company and see what effect beauty has upon him. By applying these nine tests, you may determine who is the unworthy man. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
1359:As Confucius once said, "He who does nothing is the one who does nothing."'
Gabby pondered the words, the furrowed her brow. 'did Confucius really say that?'
Sunglasses in place, Stephanie managed the tiniest of shrugs. 'No, but who cared? The point is, they handled, and most likely they found some sort of self-satisfaction in their industrious-ness. Who am I to deprive them of that?'
Gabby put her hands on her hips. 'Or maybe you just wanted to be lazy.'
Stephanie grinned. 'Like Jesus said, "Blessed are the lazy who lie in boats, for they shall inherit a suntan."'
'Jesus didn't say that.'
'True,' Stephanie afreed, sitting up. She removed her glasses, stared through them, then wiped them on a towel. 'But again, who cares? ~ Nicholas Sparks,#NFDB
1360:In speaking of the human brain as an electro-colloidal biocomputer, we all know where the hardware is: it is inside the human skull. The software, however, seems to be anywhere and everywhere. For instance, the software “in” my brain also exists outside my brain in such forms as, say, a book I read twenty years ago, which was an English translation of various signals transmitted by Plato 2400 years ago. Other parts of my software are made up of the software of Confucius, James Joyce, my second-grade teacher, the Three Stooges, Beethoven, my mother and father, Richard Nixon, my various dogs and cats, Dr. Carl Sagan, and anybody and (to some extent) any-thing that has ever impacted upon my brain. This may sound strange, but that’s the way software (or information) functions. ~ Robert Anton Wilson, #NFDB
1361:The outsider may indeed wonder at this seeming much ado about nothing. What a tempest in a tea-cup! he will say. But when we consider how small after all the cup of human enjoyment is, how soon overflowed with tears, how easily drained to the dregs in our quenchless thirst for infinity, we shall not blame ourselves for making so much of the tea-cup. Mankind has done worse. In the worship of Bacchus, we have sacrificed too freely; and we have even transfigured the gory image of Mars. Why not consecrate ourselves to the queen of the Camelias, and revel in the warm stream of sympathy that flows from her altar? In the liquid amber within the ivory-porcelain, the initiated may touch the sweet reticence of Confucius, the piquancy of Laotse, and the ethereal aroma of Sakyamuni himself. ~ Kakuz Okakura, #NFDB
1362:What Cate had noticed was a symptom of a hard form of individualism that characterized not only these people, but so many of us who share their culture. When we defined ourselves, all those centuries ago, as things that were separate from our environment and from each other, we turned our back on a truth that the descendants of Confucius knew well. We're connected. We're a highly social species. Almost everything we do impacts on someone else, in one way or another. Changes we make to our environment form ripples that spread out, far into the human universe. These ripples are easy to ignore. Especially for us Westerners, many are invisible. But they're there, no matter how convenient or seductive it might be to pretend otherwise and deny responsibility for anyone but our own sacred selves. ~ Will Storr, #NFDB
1363:By withdrawal from ordinary duties, by fasting and meditation, the new leaders had found within themselves the possibility of living a new kind of life which reversed the previous scale of values, even that of archaic agricultural society, with its over-emphasis of sexuality, its exclusive concern with kinsmen and neighbors; but even more emphatically they rejected the standards of civilization. Facing the heavily armored personalities produced by kingship, these prophets were spiritually naked and physically unarmed; so man Davids confronting the brass-bound Goliaths of the megamachine. The new leaders were bold enough to present the stripped personality as a model for imitation. For Confucius, one of the most influential of these new prophets, only those who sought to perfect the personality, with the aid of music, ritual, and learning, could be called 'complete men. ~ Lewis Mumford, #NFDB
1364:Humanity is an organism, inherently rejecting all that is deleterious, that is, wrong, and absorbing after trial what is beneficial, that is, right. If so disposed, the Architect of the Universe, we must assume, might have made the world and man perfect, free from evil and from pain, as angels in heaven are thought to be; but although this was not done, man has been given the power of advancement rather than of retrogression. The Old and New Testaments remain, like other sacred writings of other lands, of value as records of the past and for such good lessons as they inculcate. Like the ancient writers of the Bible our thoughts should rest upon this life and our duties here. "To perform the duties of this world well, troubling not about another, is the prime wisdom," says Confucius, great sage and teacher. The next world and its duties we shall consider when we are placed in it. ~ Andrew Carnegie, #NFDB
1365:Yes, but bad language is bound to make in addition bad government, whereas good language is not bound to make bad government. That again is clear Confucius: if the orders aren’t clear they can’t be carried out. Lloyd George’s laws were such a mess, the lawyers never knew what they meant. And Talleyrand proclaimed that they changed the meaning of words between one conference and another. The means of communication breaks down, and that of course is what we are suffering now. We are enduring the drive to work on the subconscious without appealing to the reason. They repeat a trade name with the music a few times, and then repeat the music without it so that the music will give you the name. I think of the assault. We suffer from the use of language to conceal thought and to withhold all vital and direct answers. There is the definite use of propaganda, forensic language, merely to conceal and mislead. ~ Ezra Pound, #NFDB
1366:Confucius said, "When good government prevails in the empire, ceremonies, music, and punitive military expeditions proceed from the son of Heaven. When bad government prevails in the empire, ceremonies, music, and punitive military expeditions proceed from the princes. When these things proceed from the princes, as a rule, the cases will be few in which they do not lose their power in ten generations. When they proceed from the great officers of the princes, as a rule, the case will be few in which they do not lose their power in five generations. When the subsidiary ministers of the great officers hold in their grasp the orders of the state, as a rule the cases will be few in which they do not lose their power in three generations. When right principles prevail in the kingdom, government will not be in the hands of the great officers. When right principles prevail in the kingdom, there will be no discussions among the common people."
16-2 ~ Confucius,#NFDB
1367:Tsz-lu said to the Master, "As the prince of Wei, sir, has been waiting for you to act for him in his government, what is it your intention to take in hand first?"
"One thing of necessity," he answered "the rectification of terms."
"That!" exclaimed Tsz-lu. "How far away you are, sir! Why such rectification?"
"What a rustic you are, Tsz-lu!" rejoined the Master. "A gentleman would be a little reserved and reticent in matters which he does not understand. If terms be incorrect, language will be incongruous; and if language be incongruous, deeds will be imperfect. So, again, when deeds are imperfect, propriety and harmony cannot prevail, and when this is the case laws relating to crime will fail in their aim; and if these last so fail, the people will not know where to set hand or foot. Hence, a man of superior mind, certain first of his terms, is fitted to speak; and being certain of what he says can proceed upon it. In the language of such a person there is nothing heedlessly irregular and that is the sum of the matter. ~ Confucius,#NFDB
1368:Why should we hate them? Because ours is the only true civilization! Even in science -- consider that we invented the sternpost rudder twelve hundred years before the Europeans did! Fore-and-aft sails in the third century! Treadmill paddle wheel for boats five hundred years later! Warships with rams and twenty paddle wheels by the twelfth century -- the British thought we had copied theirs, the fools! In the thirteenth century we had ships with fifty cabins for passengers, six-masts, double planking, water-tight compartments! Only in the last century did the barbarians even have transverse bulkheads! Five hundred years ago we already had ships four hundred and fifty feet long, and we grew fresh vegetables aboard in tubs! WE sailed the high seas to Sumatra and India, to Aden and Africa and even to Madagascar -- sixty years before the Portuguese bit a piece from the thigh of India! I curse Confucius and all those mad saints who persuaded us against war! Did you ever hear of Sun Wa, who lived three thousand years ago? No? Read the Art of War! 'If you are not in danger, do not fight,' he wrote. Now we are in danger! ~ Pearl S Buck, #NFDB
1369:All the dilemmas and questions of today were known in ethics more than 2,000 years ago. All the greatest teachers of mankind whether prophets such as Moses, Jesus, and Muhammad or non-prophets such as Confucius , Gautama, Buddha, Socrates, Kant, Tolstoy , and Martin Buber, covering a period from the sixth century BC up to the present ( Martin Buber died in 1965) have taught essentially the same morals. As distinguished from rules about social orders and ways of production , moral truths are constant. The reason for this lies in the fact that the riddle had been established at the moment of creation in the "prologue in heaven" in the act preceding the whole of human history. Intelligence, education, and experience do not in themselves help us approach or better understand all of that. Jesus pronounced his truth when he was a child and was slightly more than thirty when he was condemned. He needed neither knowledge nor experience for his great, capital truths about God and man because these truths could not be reached by knowledge or experience. Are they not "Hidden from the wise and the learned and revealed to the little ? ~ Alija Izetbegovi, #NFDB
1370:One peculiarity of our present [ethical] climate is that we care much more about our rights than about our 'good'. For previous thinkers about ethics, such as those who wrote the Upanishads, or Confucius, or Plato, or the founders of the Christian tradition, the central concern was the state of one's soul, meaning some personal state of justice or harmony. Such a state might include resignation or renunciation, or detachment, or obedience, or knowledge, especially self-knowledge. For Plato there could be no just political order except one populated by just citizens.... Today we tend not to believe that; we tend to think that modern constitutional democracies are fine regardless of the private vices of those within them. We are much more nervous talking about our good: it seems moralistic, or undemocratic, or elitist. Similarly, we are nervous talking about duty. The Victorian ideal of a life devoted to duty, or a calling, is substantially lost to us. So a greater proportion of our moral energy goes to protecting claims against each other, and that includes protecting the state of our soul as purely private, purely our own business. ~ Simon Blackburn, #NFDB
1371:For Hindus, banyan trees are sacred. For Buddhists, bodhi trees; for the Arabs, certain date palms. To be stalwart in a ‘tree-like’ way was to approach goodness, according to Confucius. The Normans built chapels in the trunks of yew trees. Many other cultures attached religious significance to particular trees and groves and forests. Adonis was born of a tree. Daphne turned into one. George Washington confessed to cutting one down and the United States, as a result, was all but immaculately conceived. The tree is the symbol of the male organ and of the female body. The Hebrew kabbalah depicts Creation in the form of a tree. In Genesis, a tree holds the key to immortal life, and it is to the branches and fruit of an olive tree that God’s people are likened in both the Old and New Testaments. To celebrate the birth of Christ his followers place trees in their sitting rooms and palm fronds, a symbol of victory, commemorate his entering Jerusalem. A child noted by Freud had fantasies of wounding a tree that represented his mother. The immortal swagman of Australia sat beneath a coolabah tree. In hundreds of Australian towns the war dead are honoured by avenues of trees. ~ Don Watson, #NFDB
1372:I think that we may safely trust a good deal more than we do. We may waive just so much care of ourselves as we honestly bestow elsewhere. Nature is well adapted to our weakness as our strength. The incessant anxiety and strain of some is a well nigh incurable form of disease. We are made to exaggerate the importance of what work we do; and yet how much is not done by us! or, what if we had been taken sick? How vigilant we are! determined not to live by faith if we can avoid it; all the day long on the alert, at night we unwillingly say our prayers and commit ourselves to uncertainties. So thoroughly and sincerely are we compelled to live, reverencing our life, and denying the possibility of change. This is the only way, we say; but there are as many ways as there can be drawn radii from one centre. All change is a miracle to contemplate; but it is a miracle which is taking place every instant. Confucius said, “To know that we know what we know, and that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.” When one man has reduced a fact of the imagination to be a fact to his understanding, I foresee that all men will at length establish their lives on that basis. ~ Henry David Thoreau, #NFDB
1373:Threefold is the march of time
While the future slow advances,
Like a dart the present glances,
Silent stands the past sublime.
No impatience e'er can speed him
On his course if he delay;
No alarm, no doubts impede him
If he keep his onward way;
No regrets, no magic numbers
Wake the tranced one from his slumbers.
Wouldst thou wisely and with pleasure,
Pass the days of life's short measure,
From the slow one counsel take,
But a tool of him ne'er make;
Ne'er as friend the swift one know,
Nor the constant one as foe!
II.
Threefold is the form of space:
Length, with ever restless motion,
Seeks eternity's wide ocean;
Breadth with boundless sway extends;
Depth to unknown realms descends.
All as types to thee are given;
Thou must onward strive for heaven,
Never still or weary be
Would'st thou perfect glory see;
Far must thy researches go.
Wouldst thou learn the world to know;
Thou must tempt the dark abyss
Wouldst thou prove what Being is.
Naught but firmness gains the prize,
Naught but fulness makes us wise,
Buried deep, truth ever lies!
~ Friedrich Schiller, The Proverbs Of Confucius
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1374:The capitalist and consumerist ethics are two sides of the same coin, a merger of two commandments. The supreme commandment of the rich is ‘Invest!’ The supreme commandment of the rest of us is ‘Buy!’ The capitalist–consumerist ethic is revolutionary in another respect. Most previous ethical systems presented people with a pretty tough deal. They were promised paradise, but only if they cultivated compassion and tolerance, overcame craving and anger, and restrained their selfish interests. This was too tough for most. The history of ethics is a sad tale of wonderful ideals that nobody can live up to. Most Christians did not imitate Christ, most Buddhists failed to follow Buddha, and most Confucians would have caused Confucius a temper tantrum. In contrast, most people today successfully live up to the capitalist–consumerist ideal. The new ethic promises paradise on condition that the rich remain greedy and spend their time making more money and that the masses give free reign to their cravings and passions and buy more and more. This is the first religion in history whose followers actually do what they are asked to do. How though do we know that we'll really get paradise in return? We've seen it on television. ~ Yuval Noah Harari, #NFDB
1375:Cracking his knuckles, Cary dramatically prepared to open his fortune cookie. “Let’s see. Will I be rich? Famous? About to
meet Mr. or Ms. Tall, Dark, and Tasty? Traveling to distant lands? What’d you guys get?”
“Mine’s lame,” I said. “In the end all things will be known. Duh. I didn’t need a fortune to figure that out.”
Gideon opened his and read, “Prosperity will knock on your door soon.”
I snorted.
Cary shot me a look. “I know, right? You snatched someone else’s cookie, Cross.”
“He better not be anywhere near someone else’s cookie,” I said dryly.
Reaching over, Gideon plucked half of mine out of my fingers. “Don’t worry, angel. Your cookie is the only one I want.”
He popped it in his mouth with a wink.
“Gag,” Cary muttered. “Get a room.” He cracked his fortune with a flourish, and then scowled. “What the fuck?”
I leaned forward. “What’s it say?”
“Confucius say,” Gideon ad-libbed, “man with hand in pocket feel cocky all day.”
Cary threw half his cookie at Gideon, who caught it deftly and grinned.
“Give me that.” I snatched the fortune out from between Cary’s fingers and read it. Then laughed.
“Fuck you, Eva.”
“Well?” Gideon prodded.
“Pick another cookie.”
Gideon smiled. “Pwned by a fortune.”
Cary threw the other half of his cookie. ~ Sylvia Day,#NFDB
1376:I wasn't an Irishman, but I knew how it felt to have someone standing over you, controlling your life and wanting to call it something else. From the people at Christian Fellowship to First Academy to my parents to Confucius to thousands of years of ass-backwards Chinese thinking, I knew how it felt. Everything my parents did to me and their parents did to them was justified under the banner of Tradition, Family, and Culture. And when it wasn't them it was someone impressing Christianity on me and when it wasn't Christianity it was whiteness.
Those other kids had more vocabs than me and more knowledge of the American canon. At that age, I didn't know what Citizen Kane, Gone with the Wind, or even A Christmas Story was. There were so many gaps in my American cultural understanding because we just didn't get it at home. It always hurt me writing or debating because I didn't share their references, but that summer I was determined that it wouldn't stop me. I wouldn't try to talk about things they knew anymore. I would use the references that made sense to me and make them catch up. Before I ever read a marketing book in college, I understood what "pull marketing" was. Unlike the other kids, I wasn't memorizing words or events. I was speaking from experience. For the first time, I wasn't arguing just to argue. I wasn't wildin' out' couse Iw as bored. I finally found another mind I fucked with and it was just my luck he was dead-ass Irishman. (123-124) ~ Eddie Huang,#NFDB
1377:El pueblo antiguo que deseaba tener una clara armonía moral en el mundo, ordenaba primero su vida nacional; los que deseaban ordenar su vida nacional regulaban primero su vida familiar; los que deseaban regular su vida familiar cultivaban primero sus vidas personales; los que deseaban cultivar sus vidas personales enderezaban primero sus corazones; quienes deseaban enderezar sus corazones hacían primero sinceras sus voluntades; los que deseaban hacer sinceras sus voluntades llegaban primero a la comprensión; la comprensión proviene de la exploración del conocimiento de las cosas.
Cuando se gana el conocimiento de las cosas se logra la comprensión; cuando se gana la comprensión, la voluntad es sincera; cuando la voluntad es sincera, el corazón se endereza; cuando el corazón se endereza, se cultiva la vida personal; cuando la vida personal se cultiva, se regula la vida familiar; cuando se regula la vida familiar, la vida nacional es ordenada, y cuando la vida nacional es ordenada, el mundo está en paz.
Desde el Emperador hasta el hombre común, el cultivo de la vida personal es el cimiento para todo. Es imposible que cuando los cimientos no están en orden se halle en orden la superestructura. Jamás ha habido un árbol de tronco delgado cuyas ramas superiores sean pesadas y fuertes.
Hay una causa y una secuencia en las cosas, y un comienzo y un fin en los asuntos humanos.
Conocer el orden de precedencia es tener el comienzo de la sabiduría. ~ Confucius,#NFDB
1378:This is an enormous claim, but there is a certain logic to it. One of the most recent people to note this logic is Bono, the lead singer of U2, in a conversation with Michka Assayas: Assayas: Christ has his rank among the world’s great thinkers. But Son of God, isn’t that far-fetched? Bono: No, it’s not far-fetched to me. Look, the secular response to the Christ story always goes like this: He was a great prophet, obviously a very interesting guy, had a lot to say along the lines of other great prophets, be they Elijah, Muhammad, Buddha, or Confucius. But actually Christ doesn’t allow you that. He doesn’t let you off that hook. Christ says, No. I’m not saying I’m a teacher, don’t call me teacher. I’m not saying I’m a prophet. I’m saying: ‘I’m the Messiah.’ I’m saying: ‘I am God incarnate.’ And people say: No, no, please, just be a prophet. A prophet we can take. You’re a bit eccentric. We’ve had John the Baptist eating locusts and wild honey, we can handle that. But don’t mention the ‘M’ word! Because, you know, we’re gonna have to crucify you. And he goes: No, no, I know you’re expecting me to come back with an army and set you free from these creeps, but actually I am the Messiah. At this point, everyone starts staring at their shoes, and says: Oh, my God, he’s gonna keep saying this. So what you’re left with is either Christ was who He said He was – the Messiah – or a complete nutcase. I mean, we’re talking nutcase on the level of Charles Manson. . . . I’m not joking here. The idea that the entire course of civilisation for over half of the globe could have its fate changed and turned upside-down by a nutcase, for me that’s far-fetched . . . Bono is describing how Jesus’ statements about himself force us all into an all-or-nothing choice. ~ Timothy J Keller, #NFDB
1379:Just as I do not see how anyone can expect really to understand Kant and Hegel without knowing the German language and without such an understanding of the German mind as can only be acquired in the society of living Germans, so a fortiori I do not see how anyone can understand Confucius without some knowledge of Chinese and a long frequentation of the best Chinese society. I have the highest respect for the Chinese mind and for Chinese civilisation; and I am willing to believe that Chinese civilisation at its highest has graces and excellences which may make Europe seem crude. But I do not believe that I, for one, could ever come to understand it well enough to make Confucius a mainstay.
I am led to this conclusion partly by an analogous experience. Two years spent in the study of Sanskrit under Charles Lanman, and a year in the mazes of Patanjali's metaphysics under the guidance of James Woods, left me in a state of enlightened mystification. A good half of the effort of understanding what the Indian philosophers were after and their subtleties make most of the great European philosophers look like schoolboys lay in trying to erase from my mind all the categories and kinds of distinction common to European philosophy from the time of the Greeks. My previous and concomitant study of European philosophy was hardly better than an obstacle. And I came to the conclusion seeing also that the 'influence' of Brahmin and Buddhist thought upon Europe, as in Schopenhauer, Hartmann, and Deussen, had largely been through romantic misunderstanding that my only hope of really penetrating to the heart of that mystery would lie in forgetting how to think and feel as an American or a European: which, for practical as well as sentimental reasons, I did not wish to do ~ T S Eliot,#NFDB
1380:I was honored as a national distinguished guest
and wore out ten thousand books in reading,
My brush was always inspired by gods,
my rhymed essays rivaled those of Yang Xiong,1
my poems were kin with those of Cao Zijian.2
Li Yong looked for a chance to meet me,
and even Wang Han3 wanted to be my neighbor.
I thought I was an outstanding person,
positioned at a key ferryboat route
and would assist an emperor like Yao or Shun,4
and make folk customs honest and simple again.
In the end this ambition withered.
I became a bard instead of a hermit,
and spent thirty years traveling on a donkey,
ate traveler's rations in the luxury of the capital,
knocked on the door of the rich in the morning,
walked in the dust of fat horses in the evening,
ate leftover dishes and half-finished wine.
Wherever I went, I found misery hiding beneath.
When the emperor summoned me,
I was excited at this chance to stretch myself .
I saw blue sky but my wings just hung.
I was set back, had no scales to swim far.
I feel unworthy of your kindness,
and I know your sincerity:
in the presence of one hundred officials,
you read my best poems.
I am as happy as Gong Gong.5
Since it's hard to imitate Confucius disciple Yuan Xian6
How can I feel unhappy about anything,
though my feet still drag as usual?
Now I plan to move east to the sea,
and leave the capital behind me in the west.
But I still feel attached to the Zhongnan Mountain,
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and turn my head to look at the Wei River.
I think about my gratitude for one meal7
as I take departure from you, Prime Minister.
This white gull is lost in the waves.
Who can tame him in his journey of ten thousand miles?
~ Du Fu,#NFDB
1381:Is the weather nice?”
“Yeah, we’re in Austin. Got here about an hour ago. It’s probably 80 degrees.”
“Wish I could say the same for here.” I sigh. “Get this: it snowed last night. Like real, motherfucking snowflakes.” I’m trying to act pissed, but I can’t bring myself to it because I’m so happy to be talking to Gus right now. I know I don’t have long, so I need to make the most of it.
He laughs. “No way?”
“Yeah, it’s October. Isn’t snow against the rules or something until at least December?”
“You’re asking the wrong dude that question. Is it cold?”
“Yeah, I had to buy a winter coat today. Though for the locals this is probably still T-shirt weather. I swear Minnesotans have some sort of mutant gene that makes them immune to hot and cold. It’s freaky.”
He laughs again but then turns serious. “What about boots? Did you buy some boots? You’ll need boots.” It’s funny when he acts parental.
I over-exaggerate a full body shiver. “Stop. Buying the coat was bad enough. I don’t want to give in to the snow boots yet. I need time to work up to that. Maybe next month, or the one after that.” The truth is, I’ll need to buy the boots new, because used shoes skeeve me out, and I need to save up for them. That will take a while.
“You’re right, you’d better pace yourself.” He’s teasing me.
I tease him right back. “Need I remind you that you’re touring the United States this winter? That includes the northern frigid states. You’re going to need to buy a winter coat too, you know.”
He exhales through gritted teeth. “I know. I’m still in cold-weather denial.”
“It’s a nice place to visit, denial, but you can’t live there forever, dude.” Maybe I should take my own advice.
“Bright Side, are you quoting Confucius or JFK? That sounds so familiar.” I know without seeing him that he’s wearing this dumb, mocking expression that makes me laughevery time.
“Dude, I think it was Yoda, in The Empire Strikes Back. It was part of Luke’s Jedi training or something. ~ Kim Holden,#NFDB
1382:It is a great pity that this tendency towards religious thought can find no better outlet than the Jewish pettifoggery of the Old Testament. For religious people who, in the solitude of winter, continually seek ultimate light on their religious problems with the assistance of the Bible, must eventually become spiritually deformed. The wretched people strive to extract truths from these Jewish chicaneries, where in fact no truths exist. As a result they become embedded in some rut of thought or other and, unless they possess an exceptionally commonsense mind, degenerate into religious maniacs.
It is deplorable that the Bible should have been translated into German, and that the whole of the German people should have thus become exposed to the whole of this Jewish mumbo-jumbo. So long as the wisdom, particularly of the Old Testament, remained exclusively in the Latin of the Church, there was little danger that sensible people would become the victims of illusions as the result of studying the Bible. But since the Bible became common property, a whole heap of people have found opened to them lines of religious thought which—particularly in conjunction with the German characteristic of persistent and somewhat melancholy meditation—as often as not turned them into religious maniacs. When one recollects further that the Catholic Church has elevated to the status of Saints a whole number of madmen, one realises why movements such as that of the Flagellants came inevitably into existence in the Middle Ages in Germany.
As a sane German, one is flabbergasted to think that German human beings could have let themselves be brought to such a pass by Jewish filth and priestly twaddle, that they were little different from the howling dervish of the Turks and the negroes, at whom we laugh so scornfully. It angers one to think that, while in other parts of the globe religious teaching like that of Confucius, Buddha and Mohammed offers an undeniably broad basis for the religious-minded, Germans should have been duped by a theological exposition devoid of all honest depth. ~ Adolf Hitler,#NFDB
1383:It is often asserted that education is breaking down because of overspecialisation. But this is only a partial and misleading diagnosis. Specialisation is not in itself a faulty principle of education. What would be the alternative - an amateurish smattering of all major subjects? Or a lengthy studium generale in which men are forced to spend their time sniffing at subjects which they do not wish to pursue, while they are being kept away from what they want to learn? This cannot be the right answer, since it can only lead to the type of intellectual man, whom Cardinal Newman castigated -'an intellectual man, as the world now conceives of him. ,..one who is full of "views" on all subjects of philosophy, on all matters of the day'. Such 'viewiness' is a sign of ignorance rather than knowledge. 'Shall I teach you the meaning of knowledge?' said Confucius. 'When you know a thing to recognise that you know it, and when you do not, to know that you do not know - that is knowledge.' What is at fault is not specialisation, but the lack of depth with which the subjects are usually presented, and the absence of meta- physical awareness. The sciences are being taught without any awareness of the presuppositions of science, of the meaning and significance of scientific laws, and of the place occupied by the natural sciences within the whole cosmos of human thought. The result is that the presuppositions of science are normally mistaken for its findings. Economics is being taught without any awareness of the view of human nature that underlies present-day economic theory. In fact, many economists are themselves unaware of the fact that such a view is implicit in their teaching and that nearly all their theories would have to change if that view changed. How could there be a rational teaching of politics without pressing all questions back to their metaphysical roots? Political thinking must necessarily become confused and end in 'double-talk' if there is a continued refusal to admit the serious study of the meta- physical and ethical problems involved. The confusion is already so great that it is legitimate to doubt the educational value of studying many of the so-called humanistic subjects. I say 'so- called' because a subject that does not make explicit its view of human nature can hardly be called humanistic. All ~ Ernst F Schumacher, #NFDB
1384:Why should we place Christ at the top and summit of the human race? Was he kinder, more forgiving, more self-sacrificing than Buddha? Was he wiser, did he meet death with more perfect calmness, than Socrates? Was he more patient, more charitable, than Epictetus? Was he a greater philosopher, a deeper thinker, than Epicurus? In what respect was he the superior of Zoroaster? Was he gentler than Lao-tsze, more universal than Confucius? Were his ideas of human rights and duties superior to those of Zeno? Did he express grander truths than Cicero? Was his mind subtler than Spinoza’s? Was his brain equal to Kepler’s or Newton’s? Was he grander in death – a sublimer martyr than Bruno? Was he in intelligence, in the force and beauty of expression, in breadth and scope of thought, in wealth of illustration, in aptness of comparison, in knowledge of the human brain and heart, of all passions, hopes and fears, the equal of Shakespeare, the greatest of the human race? ~ Robert G Ingersoll, #NFDB
1385:Meanwhile, Mme Mao and her cohorts were renewing their efforts to prevent the country from working. In industry, their slogan was: "To stop production is revolution itself." In agriculture, in which they now began to meddle seriously: "We would rather have socialist weeds than capitalist crops." Acquiring foreign technology became "sniffing after foreigners' farts and calling them sweet." In education: "We want illiterate working people, not educated spiritual aristocrats." They called for schoolchildren to rebel against their teachers again; in January 1974, classroom windows, tables, and chairs in schools in Peking were smashed, as in 1966. Mme Mao claimed this was like "the revolutionary action of English workers destroying machines in the eighteenth century." All this demagoguery' had one purpose: to create trouble for Zhou Enlai and Deng Xiao-ping and generate chaos. It was only in persecuting people and in destruction that Mme Mao and the other luminaries of the Cultural Revolution had a chance to "shine." In construction they had no place.
Zhou and Deng had been making tentative efforts to open the country up, so Mme Mao launched a fresh attack on foreign culture. In early 1974 there was a big media campaign denouncing the Italian director Michelangelo Antonioni for a film he had made about China, although no one in China had seen the film, and few had even heard of it or of Antonioni. This xenophobia was extended to Beethoven after a visit by the Philadelphia Orchestra.
In the two years since the fall of Lin Biao, my mood had changed from hope to despair and fury. The only source of comfort was that there was a fight going on at all, and that the lunacy was not reigning supreme, as it had in the earlier years of the Cultural Revolution. During this period, Mao was not giving his full backing to either side.
He hated the efforts of Zhou and Deng to reverse the Cultural Revolution, but he knew that his wife and her acolytes could not make the country work.
Mao let Zhou carry on with the administration of the country, but set his wife upon Zhou, particularly in a new campaign to 'criticize Confucius." The slogans ostensibly denounced Lin Biao, but were really aimed at Zhou, who, it was widely held, epitomized the virtues advocated by the ancient sage. Even though Zhou had been unwaveringly loyal, Mao still could not leave him alone. Not even now, when Zhou was fatally ill with advanced cancer of the bladder. ~ Jung Chang,#NFDB
1386:reading :::
50 Philosophy Classics: List of Books Covered:
1. Hannah Arendt - The Human Condition (1958)
2. Aristotle - Nicomachean Ethics (4th century BC)
3. AJ Ayer - Language, Truth and Logic (1936)
4. Julian Baggini - The Ego Trick (2011)
5. Jean Baudrillard - Simulacra and Simulation (1981)
6. Simone de Beauvoir - The Second Sex (1952)
7. Jeremy Bentham - Principles of Morals and Legislation (1789)
8. Henri Bergson - Creative Evolution (1911)
9. David Bohm - Wholeness and the Implicate Order (1980)
10. Noam Chomsky - Understanding Power (2002)
11. Cicero - On Duties (44 BC)
12. Confucius - Analects (5th century BC)
13. Rene Descartes - Meditations (1641)
14. Ralph Waldo Emerson - Fate (1860)
15. Epicurus - Letters (3rd century BC)
16. Michel Foucault - The Order of Things (1966)
17. Harry Frankfurt - On Bullshit (2005)
18. Sam Harris - Free Will (2012)
19. GWF Hegel - Phenomenology of Spirit (1803)
20. Martin Heidegger - Being and Time (1927)
21. Heraclitus - Fragments (6th century)
22. David Hume - An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (1748)
23. William James - Pragmatism (1904)
24. Daniel Kahneman - Thinking: Fast and Slow (2011)
25. Immanuel Kant - Critique of Pure Reason (1781)
26. Soren Kierkegaard - Fear and Trembling (1843)
27. Saul Kripke - Naming and Necessity (1972)
28. Thomas Kuhn - The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962)
29. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz - Theodicy (1710)
30. John Locke - An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1690)
31. Marshall McLuhan - The Medium is the Massage (1967)
32. Niccolo Machiavelli - The Prince (1532)
33. John Stuart Mill - On Liberty (1859)
34. Michel de Montaigne - Essays (1580)
35. Iris Murdoch - The Sovereignty of Good (1970)
36. Friedrich Nietzsche - Beyond Good and Evil (1886)
37. Blaise Pascal - Pensees (1670)
38. Plato - The Republic (4th century BC)
39. Karl Popper - The Logic of Scientific Discovery (1934)
40. John Rawls - A Theory of Justice (1971)
41. Jean-Jacques Rousseau - The Social Contract (1762)
42. Bertrand Russell - The Conquest of Happiness (1920)
43. Michael Sandel - Justice (2009)
44. Jean Paul Sartre - Being and Nothingness (1943)
45. Arthur Schopenhauer - The World as Will and Representation (1818)
46. Peter Singer - The Life You Can Save (2009)
47. Baruch Spinoza - Ethics (1677)
48. Nassim Nicholas - Taleb The Black Swan (2007)
49. Ludwig Wittgenstein - Philosophical Investigations (1953)
50. Slavoj Zizek - Living In The End Times (2010)
~ Tom Butler-Bowdon, 50 Philosophy Classics,#NFDB
1387:Lee’s hand shook as he filled the delicate cups. He drank his down in one gulp. “Don’t you see?” he cried. “The American Standard translation orders men to triumph over sin, and you can call sin ignorance. The King James translation makes a promise in ‘Thou shalt,’ meaning that men will surely triumph over sin. But the Hebrew word, the word timshel—‘Thou mayest’—that gives a choice. It might be the most important word in the world. That says the way is open. That throws it right back on a man. For if ‘Thou mayest’—it is also true that ‘Thou mayest not.’ Don’t you see?”
“Yes, I see. I do see. But you do not believe this is divine law. Why do you feel its importance?”
“Ah!” said Lee. “I’ve wanted to tell you this for a long time. I even anticipated your questions and I am well prepared. Any writing which has influenced the thinking and the lives of innumerable people is important. Now, there are many millions in their sects and churches who feel the order, ‘Do thou,’ and throw their weight into obedience. And there are millions more who feel predestination in ‘Thou shalt.’ Nothing they may do can interfere with what will be. But “Thou mayest’! Why, that makes a man great, that gives him stature with the gods, for in his weakness and his filth and his murder of his brother he has still the great choice. He can choose his course and fight it through and win.” Lee’s voice was a chant of triumph.
Adam said, “Do you believe that, Lee?”
“Yes, I do. Yes, I do. It is easy out of laziness, out of weakness, to throw oneself into the lap of deity, saying, ‘I couldn’t help it; the way was set.’ But think of the glory of the choice! That makes a man a man. A cat has no choice, a bee must make honey. There’s no godliness there. And do you know, those old gentlemen who were sliding gently down to death are too interested to die now?”
Adam said, “Do you mean these Chinese men believe the Old Testament?”
Lee said, “These old men believe a true story, and they know a true story when they hear it. They are critics of truth. They know that these sixteen verses are a history of humankind in any age or culture or race. They do not believe a man writes fifteen and three-quarter verses of truth and tells a lie with one verb. Confucius tells men how they should live to have good and successful lives. But this—this is a ladder to climb to the stars.” Lee’s eyes shone. “You can never lose that. It cuts the feet from under weakness and cowardliness and laziness.”
Adam said, “I don’t see how you could cook and raise the boys and take care of me and still do all this.”
“Neither do I,” said Lee. “But I take my two pipes in the afternoon, no more and no less, like the elders. And I feel that I am a man. And I feel that a man is a very important thing—maybe more important than a star. This is not theology. I have no bent toward gods. But I have a new love for that glittering instrument, the human soul. It is a lovely and unique thing in the universe. It is always attacked and never destroyed—because ‘Thou mayest. ~ John Steinbeck,#NFDB
1388:JANUARY 26 Being Kind-I You often say, “I would give, but only to the deserving.” The trees in your orchard say not so, nor the flocks in your pastures. They give that they may live, for to withhold is to perish. —KAHLIL GIBRAN The great and fierce mystic William Blake said, There is no greater act than putting another before you. This speaks to a selfless giving that seems to be at the base of meaningful love. Yet having struggled for a lifetime with letting the needs of others define me, I've come to understand that without the healthiest form of self-love—without honoring the essence of life that this thing called “self” carries, the way a pod carries a seed—putting another before you can result in damaging self-sacrifice and endless codependence. I have in many ways over many years suppressed my own needs and insights in an effort not to disappoint others, even when no one asked me to. This is not unique to me. Somehow, in the course of learning to be good, we have all been asked to wrestle with a false dilemma: being kind to ourselves or being kind to others. In truth, though, being kind to ourselves is a prerequisite to being kind to others. Honoring ourselves is, in fact, the only lasting way to release a truly selfless kindness to others. It is, I believe, as Mencius, the grandson of Confucius, says, that just as water unobstructed will flow downhill, we, given the chance to be what we are, will extend ourselves in kindness. So, the real and lasting practice for each of us is to remove what obstructs us so that we can be who we are, holding nothing back. If we can work toward this kind of authenticity, then the living kindness—the water of compassion—will naturally flow. We do not need discipline to be kind, just an open heart. Center yourself and meditate on the water of compassion that pools in your heart. As you breathe, simply let it flow, without intent, into the air about you. JANUARY 27 Being Kind-II We love what we attend. —MWALIMU IMARA There were two brothers who never got along. One was forever ambushing everything in his path, looking for the next treasure while the first was still in his hand. He swaggered his shield and cursed everything he held. The other brother wandered in the open with very little protection, attending whatever he came upon. He would linger with every leaf and twig and broken stone. He blessed everything he held. This little story suggests that when we dare to move past hiding, a deeper law arises. When we bare our inwardness fully, exposing our strengths and frailties alike, we discover a kinship in all living things, and from this kinship a kindness moves through us and between us. The mystery is that being authentic is the only thing that reveals to us our kinship with life. In this way, we can unfold the opposite of Blake's truth and say, there is no greater act than putting yourself before another. Not before another as in coming first, but rather as in opening yourself before another, exposing your essence before another. Only in being this authentic can real kinship be known and real kindness released. It is why we are moved, even if we won't admit it, when strangers let down and show themselves. It is why we stop to help the wounded and the real. When we put ourselves fully before another, it makes love possible, the way the stubborn land goes soft before the sea. Place a favorite object in front of you, and as you breathe, put yourself fully before it and feel what makes it special to you. As you breathe, meditate on the place in you where that specialness comes from. Keep breathing evenly, and know this specialness as a kinship between you and your favorite object. During your day, take the time to put yourself fully before something that is new to you, and as you breathe, try to feel your kinship to it. ~ Mark Nepo, #NFDB
1389:We see three men standing around a vat of vinegar. Each has dipped his finger into the vinegar and has tasted it. The expression on each man's face shows his individual reaction. Since the painting is allegorical, we are to understand that these are no ordinary vinegar tasters, but are instead representatives of the "Three Teachings" of China, and that the vinegar they are sampling represents the Essence of Life. The three masters are K'ung Fu-tse (Confucius), Buddha, and Lao-tse, author of the oldest existing book of Taoism. The first has a sour look on his face, the second wears a bitter expression, but the third man is smiling.
To Kung Fu-tse (kung FOOdsuh), life seemed rather sour. He believed that the present was out step with the past, and that the government of man on earth was out of harmony with the Way of Heaven, the government of, the universe. Therefore, he emphasized reverence for the Ancestors, as well as for the ancient rituals and ceremonies in which the emperor, as the Son of Heaven, acted as intermediary between limitless heaven and limited earth. Under Confucianism, the use of precisely measured court music, prescribed steps, actions, and phrases all added up to an extremely complex system of rituals, each used for a particular purpose at a particular time. A saying was recorded about K'ung Fu-tse: "If the mat was not straight, the Master would not sit." This ought to give an indication of the extent to which things were carried out under Confucianism.
To Buddha, the second figure in the painting, life on earth was bitter, filled with attachments and desires that led to suffering. The world was seen as a setter of traps, a generator of illusions, a revolving wheel of pain for all creatures. In order to find peace, the Buddhist considered it necessary to transcend "the world of dust" and reach Nirvana, literally a state of "no wind." Although the essentially optimistic attitude of the Chinese altered Buddhism considerably after it was brought in from its native India, the devout Buddhist often saw the way to Nirvana interrupted all the same by the bitter wind of everyday existence.
To Lao-tse (LAOdsuh), the harmony that naturally existed between heaven and earth from the very beginning could be found by anyone at any time, but not by following the rules of the Confucianists. As he stated in his Tao To Ching (DAO DEH JEENG), the "Tao Virtue Book," earth was in essence a reflection of heaven, run by the same laws - not by the laws of men. These laws affected not only the spinning of distant planets, but the activities of the birds in the forest and the fish in the sea. According to Lao-tse, the more man interfered with the natural balance produced and governed by the universal laws, the further away the harmony retreated into the distance. The more forcing, the more trouble. Whether heavy or fight, wet or dry, fast or slow, everything had its own nature already within it, which could not be violated without causing difficulties. When abstract and arbitrary rules were imposed from the outside, struggle was inevitable. Only then did life become sour.
To Lao-tse, the world was not a setter of traps but a teacher of valuable lessons. Its lessons needed to be learned, just as its laws needed to be followed; then all would go well. Rather than turn away from "the world of dust," Lao-tse advised others to "join the dust of the world." What he saw operating behind everything in heaven and earth he called Tao (DAO), "the Way."
A basic principle of Lao-tse's teaching was that this Way of the Universe could not be adequately described in words, and that it would be insulting both to its unlimited power and to the intelligent human mind to attempt to do so. Still, its nature could be understood, and those who cared the most about it, and the life from which it was inseparable, understood it best. ~ Benjamin Hoff,#NFDB
1390:financially and employed him as his unofficial secretary.
In March 768, he began his journey again and got as far as Hunan province,
where he died in Tanzhou (now Changsha) in November or December 770, in his
58th year. He was survived by his wife and two sons, who remained in the area
for some years at least. His last known descendant is a grandson who requested
a grave inscription for the poet from Yuan Zhen in 813.
Hung summarises his life by concluding that, "He appeared to be a filial son, an
affectionate father, a generous brother, a faithful husband, a loyal friend, a
dutiful official, and a patriotic subject."
Works
Criticism of ~ Du Fu
's works has focused on his strong sense of history, his moral
engagement, and his technical excellence.
History
Since the Song dynasty, critics have called ~ Du Fu
the "poet historian". The most
directly historical of his poems are those commenting on military tactics or the
successes and failures of the government, or the poems of advice which he wrote
to the emperor. Indirectly, he wrote about the effect of the times in which he
lived on himself, and on the ordinary people of China. As Watson notes, this is
information "of a kind seldom found in the officially compiled histories of the
era".
~ Du Fu
's political comments are based on emotion rather than calculation: his
prescriptions have been paraphrased as, "Let us all be less selfish, let us all do
what we are supposed to do". Since his views were impossible to disagree with,
his forcefully expressed truisms enabled his installation as the central figure of
Chinese poetic history.
Moral engagement
A second favourite epithet of Chinese critics is that of "poet sage" (?? shi shèng),
a counterpart to the philosophical sage, Confucius. One of the earliest surviving
works, The Song of the Wagons (from around 750), gives voice to the sufferings
of a conscript soldier in the imperial army, even before the beginning of the
rebellion; this poem brings out the tension between the need of acceptance and
fulfilment of one's duties, and a clear-sighted consciousness of the suffering
which this can involve. These themes are continuously articulated in the poems
on the lives of both soldiers and civilians which ~ Du Fu
produced throughout his
life.
Although ~ Du Fu
's frequent references to his own difficulties can give the
impression of an all-consuming solipsism, Hawkes argues that his "famous
compassion in fact includes himself, viewed quite objectively and almost as an
afterthought". He therefore "lends grandeur" to the wider picture by comparing it
to "his own slightly comical triviality".
~ Du Fu
's compassion, for himself and for others, was part of his general
broadening of the scope of poetry: he devoted many works to topics which had
previously been considered unsuitable for poetic treatment. Zhang Jie wrote that
for ~ Du Fu
, "everything in this world is poetry", and he wrote extensively on
subjects such as domestic life, calligraphy, paintings, animals, and other poems.
Technical excellence
~ Du Fu
's work is notable above all for its range. Chinese critics traditionally used
the term txt (jídàchéng- "complete symphony"), a reference to Mencius'
description of Confucius. Yuan Zhen was the first to note the breadth of ~ Du Fu
's
achievement, writing in 813 that his predecessor, "united in his work traits which
previous men had displayed only singly". He mastered all the forms of Chinese
poetry: Chou says that in every form he "either made outstanding advances or
contributed outstanding examples". Furthermore, his poems use a wide range of
registers, from the direct and colloquial to the allusive and self-consciously
literary. This variety is manifested even within individual works: Owen identifies
the, "rapid stylistic and thematic shifts" in poems which enable the poet to
represent different facets of a situation, while Chou uses the term "juxtaposition"
as the major analytical tool in her work. ~ Du Fu
is noted for having written more
on poetics and painting than any other writer of his time. He wrote eighteen
poems on painting alone, more than any other Tang poet. ~ Du Fu
's seemingly
negative commentary on the prized horse paintings of Han Gan ignited a
controversy that has persisted to the present day.
The tenor of his work changed as he developed his style and adapted to his
surroundings ("chameleon-like" according to Watson): his earliest works are in a
relatively derivative, courtly style, but he came into his own in the years of the
rebellion. Owen comments on the "grim simplicity" of the Qinzhou poems, which
mirrors the desert landscape; the works from his Chengdu period are "light, often
finely observed"; while the poems from the late Kuizhou period have a "density
and power of vision".
Influence
According to the Encyclopædia Britannica, ~ Du Fu
's writings are considered by
many literary critics to be among the greatest of all time, and it states "his
dense, compressed language makes use of all the connotative overtones of a
phrase and of all the intonational potentials of the individual word, qualities that
no translation can ever reveal."
In his lifetime and immediately following his death, ~ Du Fu
was not greatly
appreciated. In part this can be attributed to his stylistic and formal innovations,
some of which are still "considered extremely daring and bizarre by Chinese
critics." There are few contemporary references to him—only eleven poems from
six writers—and these describe him in terms of affection, but not as a paragon of
poetic or moral ideals. ~ Du Fu
is also poorly represented in contemporary
anthologies of poetry.
However, as Hung notes, he "is the only Chinese poet whose influence grew with
time", and his works began to increase in popularity in the ninth century. Early
positive comments came from Bai Juyi, who praised the moral sentiments of
some of ~ Du Fu
's works (although he found these in only a small fraction of the
poems), and from Han Yu, who wrote a piece defending ~ Du Fu
and Li Bai on
aesthetic grounds from attacks made against them. Both these writers showed
the influence of ~ Du Fu
in their own poetic work. By the beginning of the 10th
century, Wei Zhuang constructed the first replica of his thatched cottage in
Sichuan.
It was in the 11th century, during the Northern Song era that ~ Du Fu
's reputation
reached its peak. In this period a comprehensive re-evaluation of earlier poets
took place, in which Wang Wei, Li Bai and ~ Du Fu
came to be regarded as
representing respectively the Buddhist, Daoist and Confucian strands of Chinese
culture. At the same time, the development of Neo-Confucianism ensured that
~ Du Fu
, as its poetic exemplar, occupied the paramount position. Su Shi famously
expressed this reasoning when he wrote that ~ Du Fu
was "preeminent...
because... through all his vicissitudes, he never for the space of a meal forgot his
sovereign". His influence was helped by his ability to reconcile apparent
opposites: political conservatives were attracted by his loyalty to the established
order, while political radicals embraced his concern for the poor. Literary
conservatives could look to his technical mastery, while literary radicals were
inspired by his innovations. Since the establishment of the People's Republic of
China, ~ Du Fu
's loyalty to the state and concern for the poor have been
interpreted as embryonic nationalism and socialism, and he has been praised for
his use of simple, "people's language".
~ Du Fu
's popularity grew to such an extent that it is as hard to measure his
influence as that of Shakespeare in England: it was hard for any Chinese poet not
to be influenced by him. While there was never another ~ Du Fu
, individual poets
followed in the traditions of specific aspects of his work: Bai Juyi's concern for the
poor, Lu You's patriotism, and Mei Yaochen's reflections on the quotidian are a
few examples. More broadly, ~ Du Fu
's work in transforming the lushi from mere
word play into "a vehicle for serious poetic utterance" set the stage for every
subsequent writer in the genre.
~ Du Fu
has also been influential beyond China, although in common with the other
High Tang poets, his reception into the Japanese literary culture was relatively
late. It was not until the 17th century that he was accorded the same level of
fame in Japan as in China, but he then had a profound influence on poets such as
Matsuo Basho. In the 20th century, he was the favourite poet of Kenneth
Rexroth, who has described him as "the greatest non-epic, non-dramatic poet
who has survived in any language", and commented that, "he has made me a
better man, as a moral agent and as a perceiving organism".
A Homeless Man's Departure
After the Rebellion of 755, all was silent wasteland,
gardens and cottages turned to grass and thorns.
My village had over a hundred households,
but the chaotic world scattered them east and west.
No information about the survivors;
the dead are dust and mud.
I, a humble soldier, was defeated in battle.
I ran back home to look for old roads
and walked a long time through the empty lanes.
The sun was thin, the air tragic and dismal.
I met only foxes and raccoons,
their hair on end as they snarled in rage.
Who remains in my neighborhood?
One or two old widows.
A returning bird loves its old branches,
how could I give up this poor nest?
In spring I carry my hoe all alone,
yet still water the land at sunset.
The county governor's clerk heard I'd returned
and summoned me to practice the war-drum.
This military service won't take me from my state.
I look around and have no one to worry about.
It's just me alone and the journey is short,
but I will end up lost if I travel too far.
Since my village has been washed away,
near or far makes no difference.
I will forever feel pain for my long-sick mother.
I abandoned her in this valley five years ago.
She gave birth to me, yet I could not help her.
We cry sour sobs till our lives end.
In my life I have no family to say farewell to,
so how can I be called a human being?
~ Du Fu,#NFDB
1391:The Temple Of Fame
In that soft season, when descending show'rs
Call forth the greens, and wake the rising flow'rs;
When op'ning buds salute the welcome day,
And earth relenting feels the genial day,
As balmy sleep had charm'd my cares to rest,
And love itself was banish'd from my breast,
(What time the morn mysterious visions brings,
While purer slumbers spread their golden wings)
A train of phantoms in wild order rose,
And, join'd, this intellectual sense compose.
I stood, methought, betwixt earth, seas, and skies;
The whole creation open to my eyes:
In air self-balanc'd hung the globe below,
Where mountains rise and circling oceans flow;
Here naked rocks, and empty wastes were seen,
There tow'ry cities, and the forests green:
Here sailing ships delight the wand'ring eyes:
There trees, and intermingled temples rise;
Now a clear sun the shining scene displays,
The transient landscape now in clouds decays.
O'er the wide Prospect as I gaz'd around,
Sudden I heard a wild promiscuous sound,
Like broken thunders that at distance roar,
Then gazing up, a glorious pile beheld,
Whose tow'ring summit ambient clouds conceal'd.
High on a rock of Ice the structure lay,
Steep its ascent, and slipp'ry was the way;
The wond'rous rock like Parian marble shone,
And seem'd, to distant sight, of solid stone.
Inscriptions here of various Names I view'd,
The greater part by hostile time subdu'd;
Yet wide was spread their fame in ages past,
And Poets once had promis'd they should last.
Some fresh engrav'd appear'd of Wits renown'd;
I look'd again, nor could their trace be found.
Critics I saw, that other names deface,
And fix their own, with labour, in their place:
Their own, like others, soon their place resign'd,
Or disappear'd, and left the first behind.
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Nor was the work impair'd by storms alone,
But felt th' approaches of too warm a sun;
For Fame, impatient of extremes, decays
Not more by Envy than excess of Praise.
Yet part no injuries of heav'n could feel,
Like crystal faithful to th' graving steel:
The rock's high summit, in the temple's shade,
Nor heat could melt, nor beating storm invade.
Their names inscrib'd, unnumber'd ages past
From time's first birth, with time itself shall last;
These ever new, nor subject to decays,
Spread, and grow brighter with the length of days.
So Zembla's rocks (the beauteous work of frost)
Rise white in air, and glitter o'er the coast;
Pale suns, unfelt, at distance roll away,
And on th' impassive ice the light'nings play;
Eternal snows the growing mass supply,
Till the bright mountains prop th' incumbent sky:
As Atlas fix'd, each hoary pile appears,
The gather'd winter of a thousand years.
On this foundation Fame's high temple stands;
Stupendous pile! not rear'd by mortal hands.
Whate'er proud Rome or artful Greece beheld,
Or elder Babylon, its frame excell'd.
Four faces had the dome, and ev'ry face
Of various structure, but of equal grace:
Four brazen gates, on columns lifted high,
Salute the diff'rent quarters of the sky.
Here fabled Chiefs in darker ages born,
Or Worthies old, whom arms or arts adorn,
Who cities rais'd, or tam'd a monstrous race;
The walls in venerable order grace:
Heroes in animated marble frown,
And Legislators seem to think in stone.
Westward, a sumptuous frontispiece appear'd,
On Doric pillars of white marble rear'd,
Crown'd with an architrave of antique mold,
And sculpture rising on the roughen'd mold,
In shaggy spoils here Theseus was beheld,
And Perseus dreadful with Minerva's shield:
There great Alcides stooping with his toil,
Rests on his club, and holds th' Hesperian spoil.
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Here Orpheus sings; trees moving to the sound
Start from their roots, and form a shade around:
Amphion there the loud creating lyre
Strikes, and beholds a sudden Thebes aspire!
Cithaeron's echoes answer to his call,
And half the mountain rolls into a wall:
There might you see the length'ning spires ascend,
The domes swell up, the wid'ning arches bend,
The growing tow'rs, like exhalations rise,
And the huge columns heave into the skies.
The Eastern front was glorious to behold,
With di'mond flaming, and Barbaric gold.
There Ninus shone, who spread th' Assyrian fame,
And the great founder of the Persian name:
There in long robes the royal Magi stand,
Grave Zoroaster waves the circling wand,
The sage Chaldaeans rob'd in white appear'd,
And Brahmans, deep in desert woods rever'd.
These stop'd the moon, and call'd th' unbody'd shades
To midnight banquets in the glimm'ring glades;
Made visionary fabrics round them rise,
And airy spectres skim before their eyes;
Of Talismans and Sigils knew the pow'r,
And careful watch'd the Planetary hour.
Superior, and alone, Confucius stood,
Who taught that useful science, to be good.
But on the South, a long majestic race
Of AEgypt's Priests the gilded niches grace,
Who measur'd earth, describ'd the starry spheres,
And trac'd the long records of lunar years.
High on his car Sesostris struck my view,
Whom scepter'd slaves in golden harness drew:
His hands a bow and pointed javelin hold;
His giant limbs are arm'd in scales of gold.
Between the statues Obelisks were plac'd,
And the learn'd walls with Hieroglyphics grac'd.
Of Gothic structure was the Northern side,
O'erwrought with ornaments of barb'rous pride.
There huge Colosses rose, with trophies crown'd,
And Runic characters were grav'd around.
There sate Zamolxis with erected eyes,
And Odin here in mimic trances dies.
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There on rude iron columns, smear'd with blood,
The horrid forms of Scythian heroes stood,
Druids and Bards (their once loud harps unstrung)
And youths that died to be by Poets sung.
These and a thousand more of doubtful fame,
To whom old fables gave a lasting name,
In ranks adorn'd the Temple's outward face;
The wall in lustre and effect like Glass,
Which o'er each object casting various dyes,
Enlarges some, and others multiplies:
Nor void of emblem was the mystic wall,
For thus romantic Fame increases all.
The Temple shakes, the sounding gates unfold,
Wide vaults appear, and roofs of fretted gold:
Rais'd on a thousand pillars, wreath'd around
With laurel-foliage, and with eagles crown'd:
Of bright, transparent beryl were the walls,
The friezes gold, an gold the capitals:
As heav'n with stars, the roof with jewels glows,
And ever-living lamps depend in rows.
Full in the passage of each spacious gate,
The sage Historians in white garments wait;
Grav'd o'er their seats the form of Time was found,
His scythe revers'd, and both his pinions bound.
Within stood Heroes, who thro' loud alarms
In bloody fields pursu'd renown in arms.
High on a throne with trophies charg'd, I view'd
The Youth that all things but himself subdu'd;
His feet on sceptres and tiara's trod,
And his horn'd head bely'd the Libyan God.
There Caesar, grac'd with both Minerva's, shone;
Unmov'd, superior still in ev'ry state,
And scarce detested in his Country's fate.
But chief were those, who not for empire fought,
But with their toils their people's safety bought:
High o'er the rest Epaminondas stood;
Timoleon, glorious in his brother's blood;
Bold Scipio, saviour of the Roman state;
Great in his triumphs, in retirement great;
And wise Aurelius, in whose well-taught mind
With boundless pow'r unbounded virtue join'd,
His own strict judge, and patron of mankind.
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Much-suff'ring heroes next their honours claim,
Those of less noisy, and less guilty fame,
Fair Virtue's silent train: supreme of these
Here ever shines the godlike Socrates:
He whom ungrateful Athens could expell,
At all times just, but when he sign'd the Shell:
Here his abode the martyr'd Phocion claims,
With Agis, not the last of Spartan names:
Unconquered Cato shews the wound he tore,
And Brutus his ill Genius meets no more.
But in the centre of the hallow'd choir,
Six pompous columns o'er the rest aspire;
Around the shrine itself of Fame they stand,
Hold the chief honours, and the fane command.
High on the first, the mighty Homer shone;
Eternal Adamant compos'd his throne;
Father of verse! in holy fillets drest,
His silver beard wav'd gently o'er his breast;
Tho' blind, a boldness in his looks appears;
In years he seem'd, but not impair'd by years.
The wars of Troy were round the Pillar seen:
Here fierce Tydides wounds the Cyprian Queen;
Here Hector glorious from Patroclus' fall,
Here dragg'd in triumph round the Trojan wall,
Motion and life did ev'ry part inspire,
Bold was the work, and prov'd the master's fire;
A strong expression most he seem'd t' affect,
And here and there disclos'd a brave neglect.
A golden column next in rank appear'd,
On which a shrine of purest gold was rear'd;
Finish'd the whole, and labour'd ev'ry part,
With patient touches of unweary'd art:
The Mantuan there in sober triumph sate,
Compos'd his posture, and his look sedate;
On Homer still he fix'd a rev'rend eye,
Great without pride, in modest majesty.
In living sculpture on the sides were spread
The Latian Wars, and haughty Turnus dead;
Eliza stretch'd upon the fun'ral pyre,
AEneas ending with his aged sire:
Troy flam'd in burning gold, and o'er the throne
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Arms of the Man in golden cyphers shone.
Four swans sustain a car of silver bright,
With heads advanc'd, and pinions stretch'd for flight:
Here, like some furious prophet, Pindar rode,
And seem'd to labour with th' inspiring God.
Across the harp a careless hand he flings,
And boldly sinks into the sounding strings.
The figur'd games of Greece the column grace,
Neptune and Jove survey the rapid race.
The youths hand o'er their chariots as they run;
The fiery steeds seem starting from the stone;
The champions in distorted postures threat;
And all appear'd irregularly great.
Here happy Horace tun'd th' Ausonian lyre
To sweeter sounds, and temper'd Pindar's fire:
Pleas'd with Alcaeus' manly rage t' infuse
The softer spirit of the Sapphic Muse.
The polish'd pillar diff'rent sculptures grace;
A work outlasting monumental brass.
Here smiling Loves and Bacchanals appear,
The Julian star, and great Augustus here,
The Doves that round the infant poet spread
Myrtles and bays, hung hov'ring o'er his head.
Here in a shrine that cast a dazzling light,
Sate fix'd in thought the mighty Stagirite;
His sacred head a radiant Zodiac crown'd,
And various Animals his sides surround;
His piercing eyes, erect, appear to view
Superior worlds, and look all Nature through.
With equal rays immortal Tully shone,
The Roman Rostra deck'd the Consul's throne:
Gath'ring his flowing robe, he seem'd to stand
In act to speak, and graceful stretch'd his hand.
Behind, Rome's Genius waits with Civic crowns,
And the great Father of his country owns.
These massy columns in a circle rise,
O'er which a pompous dome invades the skies:
Scarce to the top I stretch'd my aching sight,
So large it spread, and swell'd to such a height.
Full in the midst proud Fame's imperial seat,
With jewels blaz'd, magnificently great;
The vivid em'ralds there revive the eye,
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The flaming rubies shew their sanguine dye,
Bright azure rays from lively sapphrys stream,
And lucid amber casts a golden gleam.
With various-colour'd light the pavement shone,
And all on fire appear'd the glowing throne;
The dome's high arch reflects the mingled blaze,
And forms a rainbow of alternate rays.
When on the Goddess first I cast my sight,
Scarce seem'd her stature of a cubit's height;
But swell'd to larger size, the more I gaz'd,
Till to the roof her tow'ring front she rais'd.
With her, the Temple ev'ry moment grew,
And ampler Vista's open'd to my view:
Upward the columns shoot, the roofs ascend,
And arches widen, and long aisles extend.
Such was her form as ancient bards have told,
Wings raise her arms, and wings her feet infold;
A thousand busy tongues the Goddess bears,
And thousand open eyes, and thousand list'ning ears.
Beneath, in order rang'd, the tuneful Nine
(Her virgin handmaids) still attend the shrine:
With eyes on Fame for ever fix'd, they sing;
For Fame they raise the voice, and tune the string;
With time's first birth began the heav'nly lays,
And last, eternal, thro' the length of days.
Around these wonders as I cast a look,
The trumpet sounded, and the temple shoo,
And all the nations, summon'd at the call,
From diff'rent quarters fill the crowded hall:
Of various tongues the mingled sounds were heard;
In various garbs promiscuous throngs appear'd;
Thick as the bees, that with the spring renew
Their flow'ry toils, and sip the fragrant dew,
When the wing'd colonies first tempt the sky,
O'er dusky fields and shaded waters fly,
Or settling, seize the sweets the blossoms yield,
And a low murmur runs along the field.
Millions of suppliant crowds the shrine attend,
And all degrees before the Goddess bend;
The poor, the rich, the valiant and the sage,
And boasting youth, and narrative old-age.
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Their pleas were diff'rent, their request the same:
For good and bad alike are fond of Fame.
Some she disgrac'd, and some with honours crown'd;
Unlike successes equal merits found.
Thus her blind sister, fickle Fortune, reigns,
And, undiscerning, scatters crowns and chains.
First at the shrine the Learned world appear,
And to the Goddess thus prefer their play'r.
'Long have we sought t' instruct and please mankind,
With studies pale, with midnight vigils blind;
But thank'd by few, rewarded yet by none,
We here appeal to thy superior throne:
On wit and learning the just prize bestow,
For fame is all we must expect below.'
The Goddess heard, and bade the Muses raise
The golden Trumpet of eternal Praise:
From pole to pole the winds diffuse the sound,
That fills the circuit of the world around;
Not all at once, as thunder breaks the cloud;
The notes at first were rather sweet than loud:
By just degrees they ev'ry moment rise,
Fill the wide earth, and gain upon the skies.
At ev'ry breath were balmy odours shed,
Which still grew sweeter as they wider spread;
Less fragrant scents th' unfolding rose exhales,
Or spices breathing in Arabian gales.
Next these the good and just, an awful train,
Thus on their knees address the sacred fane.
'Since living virtue is with envy curs'd,
And the best men are treated like the worst,
Do thou, just Goddess, call our merits forth,
And give each deed th' exact intrinsic worth.'
'Not with bare justice shall your act be crown'd'
(Said Fame) 'but high above desert renown'd:
Let fuller notes th' applauding world amaze,
And the full loud clarion labour in your praise.'
This band dismiss'd, behold another croud
The constant tenour of whose well-spent days
No less deserv'd a just return of praise.
But strait the direful Trump of Slander sounds;
Thro' the big dome the doubling thunder bounds;
Loud as the burst of cannon rends the skies,
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The dire report thro' ev'ry region flies,
In ev'ry ear incessant rumours rung,
And gath'ring scandals grew on ev'ry tongue.
From the black trumpet's rusty concave broke
Sulphureous flames, and clouds of rolling smoke:
The pois'nous vapour blots the purple skies,
And withers all before it as it flies.
A troop came next, who crowns and armour wore,
And proud defiance in their looks they bore:
'For thee' (they cry'd) 'amidst alarms and strife,
We sail'd in tempests down the stream of life;
For thee whole nations fill'd with flames and blood,
And swam to empire thro' the purple flood.
Those ills we dar'd, thy inspiration own,
What virtue seem'd, was done for thee alone.'
'Ambitious fools!' (the Queen reply'd, and frown'd)
'Be all your acts in dark oblivion drown'd;
There sleep forgot, with mighty tyrants gone,
Your statues moulder'd, and your names unknown!'
A sudden cloud straight snatch'd them from my sight,
And each majestic phantom sunk in night.
Then came the smallest tribe I yet had seen;
Plain was their dress, and modest was their mien.
'Great idol of mankind! we neither claim
The praise of merit, nor aspire to fame!
But safe in deserts from th' applause of men,
Would die unheard of, as we liv'd unseen,
'Tis all we beg thee, to conceal from sight
Those acts of goodness, which themselves requite.
To follow virtue ev'n for virtue's sake.'
'And live there men, who slight immortal fame?
Who then with incense shall adore our name?
But mortals! know, 'tis still our greatest pride
To blaze those virtues, which the good would hide.
Rise! Muses, rise; add all your tuneful breath,
These must not sleep in darkness and in death.'
She said: in air the trembling music floats,
And on the winds triumphant swell the notes;
So soft, tho' high, so loud, and yet so clear,
Ev'n list'ning Angels lean'd from heav'n to hear:
To farthest shores th' Ambrosial spirit flies,
Sweet to the world, and grateful to the skies.
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Next these a youthful train their vows express'd,
With feathers crown'd, with gay embroid'ry dress'd:
'Hither,' they cry'd, 'direct your eyes, and see
The men of pleasure, dress, and gallantry;
Ours is the place at banquets, balls, and plays,
Sprightly our nights, polite are all our days;
Courts we frequent, where 'tis our pleasing care
To pay due visits, and address the fair:
In fact, 'tis true, no nymph we could persuade,
But still in fancy vanquish'd ev'ry maid;
Of unknown Duchesses lewd tales we tell,
Yet, would the world believe us, all were well.
The joy let others have, and we the name,
And what we want in pleasure, grant in fame.'
The Queen assents, the trumpet rends the skies,
And at each blast a Lady's honour dies.
Pleas'd with the strange success, vast numbers prest
Around the shrine, and made the same request:
'What? you,' (she cry'd) 'unlearn'd in arts to please,
Slaves to yourselves, and ev'n fatigu'd with ease,
Who lose a length of undeserving days,
Would you usurp the lover's dear-bought praise?
To just contempt, ye vain pretenders, fall,
The people's fable, and the scorn of all.'
Straight the black clarion sends a horrid sound,
Loud laughs burst out, and bitter scoffs fly round,
Whispers are heard, with taunts reviling loud,
And scornful hisses run thro' the crowd.
Last, those who boast of mighty mischiefs done,
Enslave their country, or usurp a throne;
Or who their glory's dire foundation lay'd
On Sov'reigns ruin'd, or on friends betray'd;
Calm, thinking villains, whom no faith could fix,
Of crooked counsels and dark politics;
Of these a gloomy tribe surround the throne,
And beg to make th' immortal treasons known.
The trumpet roars, long flaky flames expire,
With sparks, that seem'd to set the world on fire.
At the dread sound, pale mortals stood aghast,
And startled nature trembled with the blast.
This having heard and seen, and snatch'd me from the throne.
Before my view appear'd a structure fair,
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Its site uncertain, if in earth or air;
With rapid motion turn'd the mansion round;
With ceaseless noise the ringing walls resound;
Not less in number were the spacious doors,
Than leaves on trees, or sand upon the shores;
Which still unfolded stand, by night, by day,
Pervious to winds, and open ev'ry way.
As flames by nature to the skies ascend,
As weighty bodies to the centre tend,
As to the sea returning rivers toll,
And the touch'd needle trembles to the pole;
Hither, as to their proper place, arise
All various sounds from earth, and seas, and skies,
Or spoke aloud, or whisper'd in the ear;
Nor ever silence, rest, or peace is here.
As on the smooth expanse of crystal lakes
The sinking stone at first a circle makes;
The trembling surface by the motion stir'd,
Spreads in a second circle, then a third;
Wide, and more wide, the floating rings advance,
Fill all the wat'ry plain, and to the margin dance:
Thus ev'ry voice and sound, when first they break,
On neighb'ring air a soft impression make;
Another ambient circle then they move;
That, in its turn, impels the next above;
Thro' undulating air the sounds are sent,
And spread o'er all the fluid element.
There various news I heard of love and strife,
Of peace and war, health, sickness, death, and life,
Of loss and gain, of famine and of store,
Of storms at sea, and travels on the shore,
Of prodigies, and portents seen in air,
Of fires and plagues, and stars with blazing hair,
Of turns of fortune, changes in the state,
The falls of fav'rites, projects of the great,
Of old mismanagements, taxations new:
All neither wholly false, nor wholly true.
Above, below, without, within, around.
Confus'd, unnumber'd multitudes are found,
Who pass, repass, advance, and glide away;
Hosts rais'd by fear, and phantoms of a day:
Astrologers, that future fates foreshew,
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Projectors, quacks, and lawyers not a few;
And priests, and party-zealots, num'rous bands
With home-born lies, or tales from foreign lands;
Each talk'd aloud, or in some secret place,
And wild impatience star'd in ev'ry face.
The flying rumours gather'd as they roll'd,
Scarce any tale was sooner heard than told;
And all who told it added something new,
And all who heard it, made enlargements too,
In ev'ry ear it spread, on ev'ry tongue it grew.
Thus flying east and west, and north and south,
News travel'd with increase from mouth to mouth.
So from a spark, that kindled first by chance,
With gath'ring force the quick'ning flames advance;
Till to the clouds their curling heads aspire,
And tow'rs and temples sink in floods of fire.
When thus ripe lies are to perfection sprung,
Full grown, and fit to grace a mortal tongue,
Thro' thousand vents, impatient, forth they flow,
And rush in millions on the world below.
Fame sits aloft, and points them out their course,
Their date determines, and prescribes their force:
Some to remain, and some to perish soon;
Or wane and wax alternate like the moon.
Around, a thousand winged wonders fly,
Borne by the trumpet's blast, and scatter'd thro' the sky.
There, at one passage, oft you might survey
A lie and truth contending for the way;
And long 'twas doubtful, both so closely pent,
Which first should issue thro' the narrow vent:
At last agreed, together out they fly,
Inseparable now, the truth and lie;
The strict companions are for ever join'd,
And this or that unmix'd, no mortal e'er shall find.
While thus I stood, intent to see and hear,
One came, methought, and whisper'd in my ear:
What could thus high thy rash ambition raise?
Art thou, fond youth, a candidate for praise?
'Tis true, said I, not void of hopes I came,
For who so fond as youthful bards of Fame?
But few, alas! the casual blessing boast,
So hard to gain, so easy to be lost.
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How vain that second life in others breath,
Th' estate which wits inherit after death!
Ease, health, and life, for this they must resign,
(Unsure the tenure, but how vast the fine!)
The great man's curse, without the gains endure,
Be envy'd, wretched, and be flatter'd, poor;
All luckless wits their enemies profest,
And all successful, jealous friends at best.
Nor Fame I slight, nor for her favours call;
She comes unlook'd for, if she comes at all.
But if the purchase costs so dear a price,
As soothing Folly, or exalting Vice:
Oh! if the Muse must flatter lawless sway,
And follow still where fortune leads the way;
Or if no basis bear my rising name,
But the fall'n ruin of another's fame;
Then teach me, heav'n! to scorn the guilty bays,
Drive from my breast that wretched lust of praise,
Unblemish'd let me live, or die unknown;
Oh grant an honest fame, or grant me none!
~ Alexander Pope,#NFDB
3 Integral Yoga
2 Philosophy
2 Occultism
1 Psychology
1 Poetry
3 Sri Aurobindo
3 Nolini Kanta Gupta
2 Jorge Luis Borges
2 Henry David Thoreau
3 The Secret Doctrine
2 Walden
03.10 - The Mission of Buddhism, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Yes, it was the age, almost a golden age, when man lived with his sense married to the Dawn, spontaneous in his reflexes, prime-sautier, intuitive and imaginative, full of a natural, unspoilt, unsophisticated happiness and hopefulness. But the Age of Reason had to come, and man's maturer nature, perhaps some "sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought". Such an age of Reason and Ratiocination and pure brain power was ushered in by Buddha in India, and almost contemporaneously by Socrates in Greece and Confucius in China. The rational, that is to say, the scientific or analytical attitude to things appeared in the human consciousness for the first time in its fullness and almost exclusive sway. Neither the Vedas nor the Upanishads knew of logic as an instrumenta necessary instrument for knowledge and expression. The old-world method was, as I said, intuitive, experiential, empirical, dogmatic. Also the atmosphere of that world, the stress of the consciousness was theocratic; what the new world brought in was what is called humanistic.
We say then that it was a necessity: it was a necessity that the rational, logical, ratiocinative, analytic mentality should be brought out and given its play and place. It is perhaps an inferior power of the mind or consciousness, but it is a strong power and has its use and utility. It is the power that gives the form and pattern for the display of consciousness and intelligence in outward expression and external living; it is a firm weapon that gives control over these inferior ranges of consciousness. The leap from the sense-consciousness or the elements of consciousness, from a mental growth just adequate and not too specialised, straight into the supra-sensuous and the transcendent had been an inevitable necessity, so that the human consciousness might get the first taste of its supreme status and value: a similar necessity brought to the fore this element of the mind, the mind's own powerof judgement and willso that there might be a greater and wider integration of human nature and also that the higher realities may be captured in our normal consciousness. Even for the withdrawal of the mind from the outer objects to the inner sources, the mind itself can be used with much effect. And Buddha showed it magnificently. And of course, Shankara too who followed in his footsteps.
04.02 - A Chapter of Human Evolution, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
In India we meet a characteristic movement. As I said the Vedas represented the Mythic Age, the age when knowledge was gained or life moulded and developed through Vision and Revelation (Sruti, direct Hearing). The Upanishadic Age followed next. Here we may say the descending light touched the higher reaches of the Mind, the mind of pure, fundamental, typical ideas. The consciousness divested itself of much of the mythic and parabolic apparel and, although supremely immediate and intuitive, yet was bathed with the light of the day, the clear sunshine of the normal wakeful state. The first burgeoning of the Rational Mind proper, the stress of intellect and intellectuality started towards the end of the Upanishadic Age with the Mahabharata, for example and the Brahmanas. It flowered in full vigour, however, in the earlier philosophical schools, the Sankhyas perhaps, and in the great Buddhist illuminationBuddha being, we note with interest, almost a contemporary of Socrates and also of the Chinese philosopher or moralist Confuciusa triumvirate almost of mighty mental intelligence ruling over the whole globe and moulding for an entire cycle human culture and destiny. The very name Buddha is significant. It means, no doubt, the Awakened, but awakened in and through the intelligence, the mental Reason, buddhi. The Buddhist tradition is that the Buddhist cycle, the cycle over which Buddha reigns is for two thousand and five hundred years since his withdrawal which takes us, it seems, to about 1956 A.D.
The Veda speaks of Indra who became later on the king of the gods. And Zeus too occupies the same place in Greek Pantheon. Indra is, as has been pointed out by Sri Aurobindo, the Divine Mind, the leader of thought-gods (Maruts), the creator of perfect forms, in which to clo the our truth-realisations in life. The later traditional Indra in India and the Greek Zeus seem to be formulations on a lower level of the original archetypal Indra, where the consciousness was more mentalised, intellectualised, made more rational, sense-bound, external, pragmatic. The legend of Athena being born straight out of the head of Zeus is a pointer as to the nature and character of the gods. The Roman name for Athena, Minerva, is significantly derived by scholars from Latin mens, which means, as we all know, mind.
10.07 - The World is One, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Coming next to Mind, the unity here too, is quite marked, clearly discernible. There is only one Mind that rules the myriad mentalities of this world. Thoughts and ideas are not in reality personal creations, they are various formulations of the one universal Mind; they enter into and possess individual minds as receptacles, and no doubt in the process undergo particular modifications in their general character. It is a very common experience to see the same or very similar ideas and thoughts expressed by individuals (or groups) living far from each other, having practically no mutual contact. We have known of "independent discoveries" of the same truth or fact and innumerable instances of this kind has history provided for us. It is not a freak of nature that we find Socrates and Buddha and Confucius as contemporaries. Contemporaries also were India's Akbar, England's Elizabeth and Italy's Leo X. Also the year 1905 has been known as Annus Mirabilis, a year of seminal importance the sowing of the seed of a new earth-lifesignificant for the whole human race, for the East and for the West, particularly for India, for Japan, for Russia and even for England. And today's world has indeed become a world of compact unity in human achievement and also alas, in human distress!
Now if one goes to the very source, the very root of the matter, the cardinal fact of unity is that of the supreme Consciousness, the original oneness of the one Divine Existence. It is the Ultimate One, inviolate, inviolableekam sat. That unity is transferred or translated or imaged on all the levels and strands of creation. That is the basic reality that holds together all tiered multiplicities. True, there has been side by side a movement of aberration, denial, disjunction in the multiple formulations and translations of the One. A reunion remains to be achieved conveying and embodying the basic unity.
1.00a - Introduction, #Magick Without Tears, #Aleister Crowley, #Occultism
In studying the Qabalah you mention six months; I think after that time you should be able to realize that, after six incarnations of uninterrupted study, you may realize that you can never know it; as Confucius said about the Yi King. "If a few more years were added to my life, I would devote a hundred of them to the study of the Yi."
If, however, you work at the Qabalah in the same way as I did myself, in season and out of season, you ought to get a very fair grasp of it in six months. I will now tell you what this method is: as I walked about, I made a point of attri buting everything I saw to its appropriate idea. I would walk out of the door of my house and reflect that door is Daleth, and house Beth; now the word "dob" is Hebrew for bear, and has the number 6, which refers to the Sun. Then you come to the fence of your property and that is Cheth number 8, number of Tarot Trump 7, which is the Chariot: so you begin to look about for your car. Then you come to the street and the first house you see is number 86, and that is Elohim, and it is built of red brick which reminds you of Mars and the Blasted Tower, and so on. As soon as this sort of work, which can be done in a quite lighthearted spirit, becomes habitual, you will find your mind running naturally in this direction, and will be surprised at your progress. Never let your mind wander from the fact that your Qabalah is not my Qabalah; a good many of the things which I have noted may be useful to you, but you must construct your own system so that it is a living weapon in your hand.
1.01 - Economy, #Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience, #Henry David Thoreau, #Philosophy
How vigilant we are! determined not to live by faith if we can avoid it; all the day long on the alert, at night we unwillingly say our prayers and commit ourselves to uncertainties. So thoroughly and sincerely are we compelled to live, reverencing our life, and denying the possibility of change. This is the only way, we say; but there are as many ways as there can be drawn radii from one centre. All change is a miracle to contemplate; but it is a miracle which is taking place every instant. Confucius said, To know that we know what we know, and that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge. When one man has reduced a fact of the imagination to be a fact to his understanding, I foresee that all men at length establish their lives on that basis.
Let us consider for a moment what most of the trouble and anxiety which
1.05 - Solitude, #Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience, #Henry David Thoreau, #Philosophy
We are the subjects of an experiment which is not a little interesting to me. Can we not do without the society of our gossips a little while under these circumstances,have our own thoughts to cheer us? Confucius says truly, Virtue does not remain as an abandoned orphan; it must of necessity have neighbors.
With thinking we may be beside ourselves in a sane sense. By a conscious effort of the mind we can stand aloof from actions and their consequences; and all things, good and bad, go by us like a torrent. We are not wholly involved in Nature. I may be either the drift-wood in the stream, or Indra in the sky looking down on it. I _may_ be affected by a theatrical exhibition; on the other hand, I _may not_ be affected by an actual event which appears to concern me much more. I only know myself as a human entity; the scene, so to speak, of thoughts and affections; and am sensible of a certain doubleness by which I can stand as remote from myself as from another. However intense my experience, I am conscious of the presence and criticism of a part of me, which, as it were, is not a part of me, but spectator, sharing no experience, but taking note of it; and that is no more I than it is you. When the play, it may be the tragedy, of life is over, the spectator goes his way. It was a kind of fiction, a work of the imagination only, so far as he was concerned. This doubleness may easily make us poor neighbors and friends sometimes.
1.06 - MORTIFICATION, NON-ATTACHMENT, RIGHT LIVELIHOOD, #The Perennial Philosophy, #Aldous Huxley, #Philosophy
Cultivate unity, replied Confucius. You do your hearing, not with your ears, but with your mind; not with your mind, but with your very soul. But let the hearing stop with the ears. Let the working of the mind stop with itself. Then the soul will be a negative existence, passively responsive to externals. In such a negative existence, only Tao can abide. And that negative state is the fasting of the heart.
Then, said Yen Hui, the reason I could not get the use of this method is my own individuality. If I could get the use of it, my individuality would have gone. Is this what you mean by the negative state?
1.07 - Standards of Conduct and Spiritual Freedom, #The Synthesis Of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
26:The older religions erected their rule of the wise, their dicta of Manu or Confucius, a complex Shastra in which they attempted to combine the social rule and moral law with the declaration of certain eternal principles of our highest nature in some kind of uniting amalgam. All three were treated on the same ground as equally the expression of everlasting verities, sanatana dharma. But two of these elements are evolutionary and valid for a time, mental constructions, human readings of the will of the Eternal; the third, attached and subdued to certain social and moral formulas, had to share the fortunes of its forms. Either the Shastra grows obsolete and has to be progressively changed or finally cast away or else it stands as a rigid barrier to the self-development of the individual and the race. The Shastra erects a collective and external standard; it ignores the inner nature of the individual, the indeterminable elements of a secret spiritual force within him. But the nature of the individual will not be ignored; its demand is inexorable. The unrestrained indulgence of his outer impulses leads to anarchy and dissolution, but the suppression and coercion of his soul's freedom by a fixed and mechanical rule spells stagnation or an inner death. Not this coercion or determination from outside, but the free discovery of his highest spirit and the truth of an eternal movement is the supreme thing that he has to discover.
27:The higher ethical law is discovered by the individual in his mind and will and psychic sense and then extended to the race. The supreme law also must be discovered by the individual in his spirit. Then only, through a spiritual influence and not by the mental idea, can it be extended to others. A moral law can be imposed as a rule or an ideal on numbers of men who have not attained that level of consciousness or that fineness of mind and will and psychic sense in which it can become a reality to them and a living force. As an ideal it can be revered without any need of practice. As a rule it can be observed in its outsides even if the inner sense is missed altogether. The supramental and spiritual life cannot be mechanised in this way, it cannot be turned into a mental ideal or an external rule. It has its own great lines, but these must be made real, must be the workings of an active Power felt in the individual's consciousness and the transcriptions of an eternal Truth powerful to transform mind, life and body. And because it is thus real, effective, imperative, the generalisation of the supramental consciousness and the spiritual life is the sole force that can lead to individual and collective perfection in earth's highest creatures. Only by our coming into constant touch with the divine Consciousness and its absolute Truth can some form of the conscious Divine, the dynamic Absolute, take up our earth-existence and transform its strife, stumbling, sufferings and falsities into an image of the supreme Light, Power and Ananda.
1.07 - THE .IMPROVERS. OF MANKIND, #Twilight of the Idols, #Friedrich Nietzsche, #Philosophy
priests who "improve" mankind. Neither Manu, nor Plato, nor Confucius,
nor the teachers of Judaism and Christianity, have ever doubted their
1.fs - The Proverbs Of Confucius, #Schiller - Poems, #Friedrich Schiller, #Poetry
object:1.fs - The Proverbs Of Confucius
author class:Friedrich Schiller
2.03 - Karmayogin A Commentary on the Isha Upanishad, #Isha Upanishad, #unset, #Integral Yoga
the race in their political or ethico-legal systems. Such were Lycurgus, Confucius, Menes, Manu. For in those days individual
greatness and perfection commanded a sacred reverence from
6.0 - Conscious, Unconscious, and Individuation, #The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious, #Carl Jung, #Psychology
music and dancing. Confucius comments as follows:
Firm as a rock, what need of a whole day?
BOOK II. -- PART II. THE ARCHAIC SYMBOLISM OF THE WORLD-RELIGIONS, #The Secret Doctrine, #H P Blavatsky, #Theosophy
UNITY -- whether representing PARABRAHMAM, or the "GREAT EXTREME" of Confucius, or
the Deity concealed by PHTA, the Eternal Light, or again the Jewish EN-SOPH, is always found to be
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had her Confucius, and her Tau-ists.* The former circumscribes the "great extreme" within a circle
with a horizontal line across; the latter place three concentric circles beneath the great circle, while the
BOOK I. -- PART I. COSMIC EVOLUTION, #The Secret Doctrine, #H P Blavatsky, #Theosophy
explanations. Such are, for instance, the works of Lao-tse, the predecessor of Confucius.*
He is said to have written 930 books on Ethics and religions, and seventy on magic, one thousand in
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* "If we turn to China, we find that the religion of Confucius is founded on the Five King and the Four
Shu-books, in themselves of considerable extent and surrounded by voluminous Commentaries,
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mythical disguise. Therefore is Confucius, a very ancient
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** "Life of Confucius," p. 96.
*** This is no pretension to prophecy, but simply a statement based on the knowledge of facts. Every
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ascending scale. Thence it follows that those persons who, like Confucius and Plato, belonged
psychically, mentally and spiritually to the higher planes of evolution, were in our Fourth Round as
BOOK I. -- PART II. THE EVOLUTION OF SYMBOLISM IN ITS APPROXIMATE ORDER, #The Secret Doctrine, #H P Blavatsky, #Theosophy
cosmogony. "It was unknown to Confucius, and the Buddhists extended their Cosmogony without
introducing a personal God,"* it is complained. The Yi-King, "the very essence of ancient thought and
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there is one, and a very distinct one. Only as Confucius did not admit of a future life** and the
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perpetually looking to reward and profit. The "great Extreme" of Confucius produces "two figures."
These "two" produce in their turn "the four images"; these again "the eight symbols." It is complained
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of Pythagoras (a contemporary of Confucius) can never fail to find in his Triad, Tetractis and
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Decade emerging from the ONE and solitary Monad, the same idea. Confucius is laughed at by his
Christian biographer for "talking of divination" before and after this passage, and is represented as
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we are told by his reverend critic. Nevertheless, even in his age -- i.e., 600 B.C., Confucius and his
school taught the sphericity of the Earth and even the heliocentric system; while, at about thrice 600
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without becoming guilty of blasphemy and sacrilege. For it is over 200 years since Confucius was
canonized as a Saint in China by the Roman Catholics, who have thereby obtained many converts
Book of Imaginary Beings (text), #unset, #Anonymous, #Various
in the Historical Record of Ssu-ma Chien that Confucius
went to consult the archivist or librarian Lao-tzu, and after
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dwells near tombs, is connected with the cult of Confucius
is the Neptune of the seas and appears also on terra firma.
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When Confucius mother bore him in her womb, the
spirits of the five planets brought her an animal having the
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had a bit of ribbon around its horn that Confucius mother
had tied there. Confucius went to look at the Unicorn and
wept because he felt what the death of this innocent and
DS2, #unset, #Anonymous, #Various
The Buddha never stops teaching. When asked, he teaches through words. Otherwise, he relies on his example. Confucius once said, Do you disciples think I conceal something? I conceal nothing. I have no practice I do not share with you. This is my way. (Lunyu: 7.23)
Asanga says, Surely the best of blessings is his body and its properties. And this greatest of trusts is shared by all, mature or not. (1) Vasubandhu comments, The best of blessings is directed at those bodhisattvas who are already mature, while the greatest of trusts is directed at those who are not yet mature. Still, the greatest of trusts is shared by those who are already prapta (mature) in the
the Eternal Wisdom, #unset, #Anonymous, #Various
7) There is only one Ethics, as there is only one geometry. But the majority of men, it will be said, are ignorant of geometry. Yes, but as soon as they begin to apply themselves a little to that science, all are in agreement. Cultivators, workmen, artisans have not gone through courses in ethics; they have not read Cicero or Aristotle, but the moment they begin to think on the subject they become, without knowing it, the disciples of Cicero. The Indian dyer, the Tartar shepherd and the English sailor know what is just and what is injust. Confucius did not invent a system of ethics as one invents a system of physics. He had discovered it in the heart of all mankind. ~ Voltaire
8) The sage's rule of moral conduct has its principle in the hearts of all men. ~ Tseu-tse
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1) The sage's quest is for himself, the quest of the-ignorant for other than himself. ~ Confucius, "Lun-Yu," II 15.20
2) Nobility is for each man within him; only he never thinks of seeking for it within. ~ Meng-Tse II 5.17
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14) Whoever knows essentially his own nature, can know also that of other men and can penetrate into the nature of things. He can collaborate in the transformations and in the progress of heaven and of earth. ~ Confucius
15) How can the soul which misunderstands itself, have a sure idea of other creatures? ~ Seneca
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9) The law of the grand study or practical philosophy consists in developing and bringing into light the luminous principle of reason which we have received from heaven. ~ Confucius "Ta-hio" I
10) Reason is the foundation of all things. ~ Li-Ki
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10) Question attentively, then meditate at leisure over what you have heard. ~ Confucius
11) Take delight in questioning; hearken in silence to the word of the saints. ~ Imitation of Christ
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23) It is impossible to arrive at the summit of the mountain without passing through rough and difficult paths. ~ Confucius
24) To be ignorant of the path one has to take and set out on the way without a guide, is to will to lose oneself and run the risk of perishing. ~ Hermes
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1) By three roads we can reach wisdom: the road of experience and this is the most difficult; the road of initiative and this is the easiest; and the road of reflection and this is the noblest. ~ Confucius
2) One should seek the truth himself while profiting by the directions which have reached us from ancient sages and saints. ~ Tolstoi
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4) The superior soul asks nothing from any but itself. The vulgar and unmeritable man asks everything of others. ~ Confucius: Lia yu II XV. 20
5) I call him a man who recognises no possessions save those he finds in himself. ~ Seneca
6) He governs his soul and expects nothing from others. ~ Confucius
7) Be your own torch and your own refuge. Take truth for your force, take truth for your refuge. Seek refuge in no others but only in yourself. ~ Mahaparinibbana Sutta
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2) The superior type of man is in all the circumstances of his life exempt from prejudices and obstinacy; he regulates himself by justice alone. ~ Confucius
3) The just man is himself his own law. ~ Inscription on the Catacombs
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15) If a man is detested by the crowd, you must examine, before you judge him, why they condemn, and if a man is venerated by the crowd, equally must you, before you judge, examine why they admire. ~ Confucius
16) Let us take care above all not to walk like a flock of sheep each in the other's traces; let us inform ourselves rather of the place where we ought to go than of that where others are going. ~ Seneca
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20) Have no vicious thoughts. ~ Confucius
21) When a thought rises in us, let us see whether it is not in touch with the inferior worlds. ~ Antoine the Healer : Revelations
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5) The man who knows the principles of right reason is less than the man who loves them and he less then the man who makes of them his delight and practices them ~ Confucius:Lun-yu
6) Better are those who have read than those who have studied little; preferable those who possess what they have read to those who have read and forgotten; more meritorious those who understand than those who know by heart; those to be more highly valued who do their duty than those who merely know it. ~ Laws of Mann
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17) Let your words corres-pond with your actions and your actions with your words. ~ Confucius
18) Act as you speak. ~ Lalita-vistara
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20) Who is the superior man ? It is he who first puts his words in practice and then speaks in agreement with his acts. ~ Confucius
21) Ordinary men pronounce a sackful of discourses on religion, but do not put a grain into practice, while the sage speaks little, but his whole life is religion put in to action ~ Ramakrishna
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30) Virtue shows itself in the lowest as well as in the sublimest things. ~ Confucius
31) Now that you have learned to know the truth, let your hearts henceforth enlightened take pleasure in a conduct in conformity with it. ~ Fo-sho-hing-tai ti-king
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5) Constantly observe sincerity and fidelity and good faith. ~ Confucius
6) Hold in horror dissimilation and all hypocrisy. ~ Fo-sho-hing-tsan-king.-
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28) He alone knows the law of life. Whoever does not seek out clearly what is the true good, cannot correct himself with sincerity and does not arrive at true perfection. ~ Confucius
29) If every man dared speak frankly and highly what he thinks, he would abide always in the reality. How unhappy we make ourselves by striving to hide our nature. ~ Antoine the Healer
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1) Put always in the first rank uprightness of heart and fidelity. ~ Confucius
2) Unto the upright there ariseth light in the darkness ~ Psalms CXII
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25) Thus the sage, always equal, awaits the comm and of destiny, while the vulgar throw themselves into a thousand dangers in a search for happiness at any price. ~ Confucius
26) The sage is always at peace; thus his mentality is equally in equilibrium and at ease. His mind is simple and pure, his soul is not subject to lassitude. ~ Lao-Tse
27) The sage is happy everywhere, the whole earth is his. ~ Confucius
28) Nowhere and in no situation is the sage dissatisfied with his condition. ~ Confucius
29) He who consecrates his life to spiritual perfection, cannot be ill-content; for what he desires is always in his power. ~ Pascal
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2) From the most exalted in position to the humblest and obscurest of men all have one equal duty, to correct incessantly and improve themselves. ~ Confucius
3) One should be careful to improve himself continually. ~ Chu-King
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13) There are who do not study or who, though they study, make no progress; let them not be discouraged. There are who put no questions or, when they do, cannot seize well the sense of the reply; let them not be discouraged. There are who can distinguish nothing or only confusedly; let them not be discouraged. There are who do not practice or have no solidity in their practice; let them not be discouraged. What another would do in one step, they will do in a hundred; what another would do in ten, they will do in a thousand. Assuredly, any man who follows this rule, however poorly enlightened he may be, will acquire intelligence and, however weak he may be, will acquire strength. ~ Confucius
14) With time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes satin. ~ Persian Proverb
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5) The perfect man does not hunt after wealth. ~ Confucius
6) He must content himself with little and never ask for more than he has. ~ Baha-ullah
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22) Labour to purify thy thoughts. If thou hast no evil thoughts, thou shalt commit no evil deeds. ~ Confucius
23) If thou wouldst not be slain by them, thou shouldst make free from offence thy own creations, the children of thy invisible and impalpable thoughts, whose swarms keep wheeling around mankind and who are the descendants and heirs of man and of his terrestrial leavings. ~ Book of Golden Precepts
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35)Whosoever is truly enlightened, cannot fail to arrive at perfection. ~ Confucius
36) As the darkness of centuries is scattered when the light is brought into a chamber, so the accumulated faults of numberless births vanish before a single shaft of the light of the Almighty. ~ Ramakrishna
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5) It is easier today to triumph over evil habits than it will be tomorrow. ~ Confucius
6) The present is the most precious moment. Use all the forces of thy spirit not to let that momentescape thee. ~ Tolstoy
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5) The virtue of a man who has attained to the height of perfection, extends even to a foreknowledge of the future. ~ Confucius
6) When the mind is one with the deeper spirit and wholly in touch with knowledge, its universality embraces all things. ~ Patanjali
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17) Perfection is the end and the beginning of all things, and without perfection they could not be. ~ Confucius
18) There is an eternal Thinker, but his thoughts are not eternal. ~ Katha Upanisbad
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11) If in the morning you have heard the voice of celestial reason, in the evening you can die. ~ Confucius
12) Thence you can see that it is in a clear knowledge that is found our eternal life. ~ Ruysbroeck
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36) The teaching of our master consists solely in this, to be upright in heart and to love one's neighbour as oneself ~ Confucius
37) If ye fulfil the royal law, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, ye do well ; but if ye have respect to persons, ye commit sin. ~ James II.8, 9
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1) Charity is the affection that impels us to sacrifice ourselves to humankind as if it were one being with us. ~ Confucius
2) He is truly great who has great charity. ~ Imitation of Christ
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2) To do to men what we would have them do to ourselves is what one may call the teaching of humanity. ~ Confucius
3) Nothing more allows of growth in humanity than to train oneself ardently in reciprocity, that is to say, to do to others as we would that they should do to us. ~ Meng-Tse
4) The man who is sincere and careful to do nothing to others that he would not have done to him, is not far from the Law. What he does not desire to be done to him, let him not himself do to others. ~ Confucius
5) What we would not have done to us, we must not do to others. ~ Confucius
6) What we would not like being done to us, let us not do it to others. ~ Chang Yung
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10) What you do not wish to be done to yourselves, do not do to other men. ~ Confucius
11) Do not do to others what you would not wish to suffer at their hands, and be to them what you would wish them to be to you. ~ Isocrates
12) What you love not in your superiors, do not to your inferiors; what you reprove in your inferiors, do not to your superiors; what you hate in those who precede you, do not to those who follow you...What you would not receive from those on your right, cast not upon those on your left...Let this be the rule of your conduct. ~ Confucius
13) Do not thyself what displeases thee in others. ~ Thales
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1) The superior man lives in peace with all men with- out acting absolutely like them. The vulgar man acts absolutely like them without being in accord with them. ~ Confucius
2) An apostle of the truth should have no contest with any in the world. ~ Samyutta Nikaya
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6) But what a force is that of the sage who can live at peace with men without having the mobility of water and remain in the midst of them firm and incorruptible ! ~ Confucius
7) Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation and every city cur house divided against itself shall not stand. ~ Matthew XII. 25
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4) Let the superior man bear himself in the commerce of men with an always dignified deference, regarding all men that dwell in the world as his own brothers. ~ Confucius
5) Practising wisdom, men have respect one for another. ~ Lao Tee
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9) If you observe in all your acts the respect of yourself and of others, then shall you not be despised of any. ~ Confucius
Concord View Similar A Defence of Indian Culture - XXIII
The Wall and the BOoks, #Labyrinths, #Jorge Luis Borges, #Poetry
and Confucius and Lao Tzu) when Shih Huang Ti ordered that history begin
with him.
--- Overview of noun confucius
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1. Confucius, Kongfuze, K'ung Futzu, Kong the Master ::: (Chinese philosopher whose ideas and sayings were collected after his death and became the basis of a philosophical doctrine known a Confucianism (circa 551-478 BC))
--- Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun confucius
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=> living thing, animate thing
=> whole, unit
=> object, physical object
=> physical entity
=> entity
=> causal agent, cause, causal agency
=> physical entity
=> entity
--- Hyponyms of noun confucius
--- Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun confucius
1 sense of confucius
Sense 1
Confucius, Kongfuze, K'ung Futzu, Kong the Master
INSTANCE OF=> philosopher
--- Coordinate Terms (sisters) of noun confucius
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Confucius, Kongfuze, K'ung Futzu, Kong the Master
-> philosopher
=> nativist
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=> empiricist
=> epistemologist
=> esthetician, aesthetician
=> ethicist, ethician
=> existentialist, existentialist philosopher, existential philosopher
=> gymnosophist
=> libertarian
=> mechanist
=> moralist
=> naturalist
=> necessitarian
=> nominalist
=> pluralist
=> pre-Socratic
=> realist
=> Scholastic
=> Sophist
=> Stoic
=> transcendentalist
=> yogi
HAS INSTANCE=> Abelard, Peter Abelard, Pierre Abelard
HAS INSTANCE=> Anaxagoras
HAS INSTANCE=> Anaximander
HAS INSTANCE=> Anaximenes
HAS INSTANCE=> Arendt, Hannah Arendt
HAS INSTANCE=> Aristotle
HAS INSTANCE=> Averroes, ibn-Roshd, Abul-Walid Mohammed ibn-Ahmad Ibn-Mohammed ibn-Roshd
HAS INSTANCE=> Avicenna, ibn-Sina, Abu Ali al-Husain ibn Abdallah ibn Sina
HAS INSTANCE=> Bacon, Francis Bacon, Sir Francis Bacon, Baron Verulam, 1st Baron Verulam, Viscount St. Albans
HAS INSTANCE=> Bentham, Jeremy Bentham
HAS INSTANCE=> Bergson, Henri Bergson, Henri Louis Bergson
HAS INSTANCE=> Berkeley, Bishop Berkeley, George Berkeley
HAS INSTANCE=> Boethius, Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius
HAS INSTANCE=> Bruno, Giordano Bruno
HAS INSTANCE=> Buber, Martin Buber
HAS INSTANCE=> Cassirer, Ernst Cassirer
HAS INSTANCE=> Cleanthes
HAS INSTANCE=> Comte, Auguste Comte, Isidore Auguste Marie Francois Comte
HAS INSTANCE=> Condorcet, Marquis de Condorcet, Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas Caritat
HAS INSTANCE=> Confucius, Kongfuze, K'ung Futzu, Kong the Master
HAS INSTANCE=> Democritus
HAS INSTANCE=> Derrida, Jacques Derrida
HAS INSTANCE=> Descartes, Rene Descartes
HAS INSTANCE=> Dewey, John Dewey
HAS INSTANCE=> Diderot, Denis Diderot
HAS INSTANCE=> Diogenes
HAS INSTANCE=> Empedocles
HAS INSTANCE=> Epictetus
HAS INSTANCE=> Epicurus
HAS INSTANCE=> Haeckel, Ernst Heinrich Haeckel
HAS INSTANCE=> Hartley, David Hartley
HAS INSTANCE=> Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
HAS INSTANCE=> Heraclitus
HAS INSTANCE=> Herbart, Johann Friedrich Herbart
HAS INSTANCE=> Herder, Johann Gottfried von Herder
HAS INSTANCE=> Hobbes, Thomas Hobbes
HAS INSTANCE=> Hume, David Hume
HAS INSTANCE=> Husserl, Edmund Husserl
HAS INSTANCE=> Hypatia
HAS INSTANCE=> James, William James
HAS INSTANCE=> Kant, Immanuel Kant
HAS INSTANCE=> Kierkegaard, Soren Kierkegaard, Soren Aabye Kierkegaard
HAS INSTANCE=> Lao-tzu, Lao-tse, Lao-zi
HAS INSTANCE=> Leibniz, Leibnitz, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibnitz
HAS INSTANCE=> Locke, John Locke
HAS INSTANCE=> Lucretius, Titus Lucretius Carus
HAS INSTANCE=> Lully, Raymond Lully, Ramon Lully
HAS INSTANCE=> Mach, Ernst Mach
HAS INSTANCE=> Machiavelli, Niccolo Machiavelli
HAS INSTANCE=> Maimonides, Moses Maimonides, Rabbi Moses Ben Maimon
HAS INSTANCE=> Malebranche, Nicolas de Malebranche
HAS INSTANCE=> Marcuse, Herbert Marcuse
HAS INSTANCE=> Marx, Karl Marx
HAS INSTANCE=> Mead, George Herbert Mead
HAS INSTANCE=> Mill, John Mill, John Stuart Mill
HAS INSTANCE=> Mill, James Mill
HAS INSTANCE=> Montesquieu, Baron de la Brede et de Montesquieu, Charles Louis de Secondat
HAS INSTANCE=> Moore, G. E. Moore, George Edward Moore
HAS INSTANCE=> Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
HAS INSTANCE=> Occam, William of Occam, Ockham, William of Ockham
HAS INSTANCE=> Origen
HAS INSTANCE=> Ortega y Gasset, Jose Ortega y Gasset
HAS INSTANCE=> Parmenides
HAS INSTANCE=> Pascal, Blaise Pascal
HAS INSTANCE=> Peirce, Charles Peirce, Charles Sanders Peirce
HAS INSTANCE=> Perry, Ralph Barton Perry
HAS INSTANCE=> Plato
HAS INSTANCE=> Plotinus
=> Popper, Karl Popper, Sir Karl Raimund Popper
HAS INSTANCE=> Pythagoras
HAS INSTANCE=> Quine, W. V. Quine, Willard Van Orman Quine
HAS INSTANCE=> Radhakrishnan, Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, Sir Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
HAS INSTANCE=> Reid, Thomas Reid
HAS INSTANCE=> Rousseau, Jean-Jacques Rousseau
HAS INSTANCE=> Russell, Bertrand Russell, Bertrand Arthur William Russell, Earl Russell
HAS INSTANCE=> Schopenhauer, Arthur Schopenhauer
HAS INSTANCE=> Schweitzer, Albert Schweitzer
HAS INSTANCE=> Seneca, Lucius Annaeus Seneca
HAS INSTANCE=> Socrates
HAS INSTANCE=> Spencer, Herbert Spencer
HAS INSTANCE=> Spengler, Oswald Spengler
HAS INSTANCE=> Spinoza, de Spinoza, Baruch de Spinoza, Benedict de Spinoza
HAS INSTANCE=> Steiner, Rudolf Steiner
HAS INSTANCE=> Stewart, Dugald Stewart
HAS INSTANCE=> Tagore, Rabindranath Tagore, Sir Rabindranath Tagore
HAS INSTANCE=> Teilhard de Chardin, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
HAS INSTANCE=> Thales, Thales of Miletus
HAS INSTANCE=> Theophrastus
HAS INSTANCE=> Weil, Simone Weil
HAS INSTANCE=> Whitehead, Alfred North Whitehead
HAS INSTANCE=> Williams, Sir Bernard Williams, Bernard Arthur Owen Williams
HAS INSTANCE=> Wittgenstein, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Ludwig Josef Johan Wittgenstein
HAS INSTANCE=> Xenophanes
HAS INSTANCE=> Zeno, Zeno of Citium
HAS INSTANCE=> Zeno, Zeno of Elea
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confucius