Richard Wilhelm Quotes

#1. There is a saying in China that the nature of man is found there, in the center, where emotions are not yet manifest. In this center is the potentiality of everything to come.

Richard Wilhelm

#2. We now should be able to see cosmos and individual joined in a relationship. We should see that macrocosm and microcosm are, as it were, only far-flung parts of one unified energy center.

Richard Wilhelm

#3. That is our Shield Ring, our last stronghold; not the barrier fells and the totter-moss between, but something in the hearts of men.

Rosemary Sutcliff

#4. If today people sit and meditate only one or two hours, looking only at their own egos, and call this reflection, how can anything come of it?

Richard Wilhelm

#5. College dropouts with significant debt struggle with repayment over the course of their lives and do not receive the benefits afforded to their peers who have debt but obtain higher-paying jobs as a result of college completion.

Hank Johnson

#6. I don't write about myself. I'm never in my books.

Susan Straight

#7. I feel that the single-minded pursuit of wealth has led the middle classes into a crisis,

Rana Dasgupta

#8. Ever since I was a little girl, I've always enjoyed feeling afraid. I think it is the most delicious feeling there is

Domingos Monteiro

#9. Well, personally, I've seen enough of people who die for an idea. I don't believe in heroism; I know it's easy and I've learned that it can be murderous. What interests me is living and dying for what one loves.

Albert Camus

#10. If intellect and will are correctly centered, the emotional life takes on harmony.

Richard Wilhelm

#11. 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

#12. Where there is wisdom there is life,
and where there is evil there is death.
Folly is your enemy and so are fools;
wisdom is your friend and so are the wise.

Matshona Dhliwayo