Quotes About Confucianism

#1. The world will always need revolution. That doesn't mean shooting and violence. A revolution is when you change your thinking. Confucianism and Christianity were both revolutionary.

Jose Mujica

#2. One of the great virtues of Confucianism was its suppleness. Western political thought tended to be rather brittle; as soon as the state became corrupt, everything ceased to make sense. Confucianism always retained its equilibrium, like a cork that could float as well in spring water or raw sewage.

Neal Stephenson

#3. The ku-magic is a very ancient magic. It predates Taoism, Buddhism and Confucianism.

Laurence Yep

#4. All of Chinese thinking - Confucianism, Taoism, as well as Buddhism - contains the idea that in the course of life, man will shape harmoniously those psychic and physical predispositions that he received as capital assets by unifying them and giving them form from within a center.

Richard Wilhelm

#5. 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.

Benjamin Hoff

#6. Chinese culture in general is not very religious. Confucianism is more a code of ethics than a religion, and ancestor worship is a way for parents to control you even after they're dead.

David Henry Hwang

#7. Confucianism is all about tempering your instincts with intellectual discipline, with book learning.

Brian Reynolds Myers

#8. Every one of the "great" belief systems of the world, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Buddhism and Confucianism, insists on women's inferiority as an article of faith. Individual

Rosalind Miles

#9. Had I not come to China, I would have never learned that China is a wenming, that is has shengren and junzi, that is aspires to datong, and that "Confucianism" isn't a religion, that's not even its correct name, but is rujia.

Thorsten J. Pattberg

#10. Confucianism strongly condemned the use of drugs like opium.

Robert Trout

#11. This is the 21st century, yet Western scholars are happy to keep it colonial, describing Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism in Greco-Hellenic or Judeo-Christians terms.

Thorsten J. Pattberg

#12. Subtract miracles from Islam, Buddhism, Confucianism, or Toaism, and you have essentially the same religion left. Subtract miracles from Christianity, and you have nothing but the cliches and platitudes most American Christians get weekly (and weakly) from their pulpits.

Peter Kreeft

#13. Life and human society are the chief concern of Confucianism and, through it, the chief concern of the Chinese people.

Hu Shih

#14. 20th-century totalitarian movements were no more defined by a rejection of Judeo-Christianity than they were defined by a rejection of astrology, alchemy, Confucianism, Scientology, or any of hundreds of other belief systems.

Steven Pinker

#15. Every single one of the major traditions - Confucianism, Buddhism, and Hinduism, as well as the monotheisms - teaches a spirituality of empathy, by means of which you relate your own suffering to that of others.

Karen Armstrong

#16. She did what she could for him. She kissed him in return. She lost her breath and both her hearts, and finally Turned to smoke and back.

Shana Abe

#17. If you don't know how to serve men, why worry about serving the gods?

Confucius

#18. There is nothing more visible than what is secret, and nothing more manifest than what is minute.

Confucius

#19. If your desire is for good, the people will be good.

Confucius

#20. Some people ... cling to the idea that the photograph is an inherently real or honest image and as such is always on a different plane from an obviously subjective form of visual communication such as painting.

Tibor Kalman

#21. Is virtue a thing remote? I wish to be virtuous, and lo! Virtue is at hand.

Confucius

#22. 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

#23. It is not possible for one to teach others who cannot teach his own family.

Confucius

#24. The superior man is all-embracing and not partial. The inferior man is partial and not all-embracing.

Confucius

#25. Too tall, standing up. In bed he was very much the right size.

Eileen Wilks

#26. Think about the precedents you are setting. It's the Left that runs the world on reckless emotionalism. Don't join.

Michelle Malkin

#27. All unnatural unions which are not hallowed by love are prostitution.

Emma Goldman

#28. Happiness exist when you don't know a thing

The Weeknd

#29. Isn't it a pleasure to study and practice what you have learned?

Confucius

#30. Therefore the superior man is watchful over himself, when he is alone.

Confucius

#31. Behind real freedom, there lies discipline.

Erwin McManus

#32. 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

#33. It often takes a couple of years to get a script right and then takes a couple of years to get financing together.

Gillian Armstrong

#34. 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