Confucianism Quotes - Page 4

• Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.

  Confucius

  Love, Inspirational, Funny

  Confucius (2013). “Confucian Analects, The Great Learning & The Doctrine of the Mean”, p.141, Courier Corporation

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• When I walk along with two others, from at least one I will be able to learn.

  Confucius

  Learning, Two, Able

  "The Analects". Book by Confucius,

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• I was raised a Christian but have looked at other religions, some of the Eastern things. I was into Taoism for a while and Confucianism. Just different approaches and some have really stayed with me.

  Rick Springfield

  Christian, Taoism, Different

  "Rick Springfield: The Journey Is Never Over". Interview with Howard Kerbel, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 19, 2014.

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• 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

  Distance, Men, Good Man

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• 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

  Buddhism, Men, Thinking

  Richard Wilhelm (2014). “Lectures on the "I Ching": Constancy and Change”, p.162, Princeton University Press

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• 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

  Philosophy, Simple, Perfect

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• Hinduism, Confucianism, and Buddhism are huge traditions of enormous importance, and they aren't monotheistic. Again, this reflects the fact that our preconceptions about what religion is are so influenced by Protestantism - either real Protestantism or the secularized Protestantism that dominates our culture - and its assumption that beliefs are the most important thing.

  Robert Neelly Bellah

  Real, Buddhism, Important

  Source: blogs.ssrc.org

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• All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.

  Morarji Desai

  Wrestling, Difficult And Easy, I Hate

  Morarji Desai's speech at the 19th World Vegetarian Congress held at Mavhmkar Auditorium of Rafi Marg in New Delhi, India (November 18, 1967), later published in The British Vegetarian, March/April 1968.

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

  Hu Shih

  People, Chinese, Chiefs

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• Wealth and honor, benefits and blessings shall enrich my life; poverty and failures, grief and anxiety shall help fulfill it. In my life, I will serve heaven and earth; in death I will find peace.

  Zhang Zai

  Grief, Blessing, Anxiety

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• The superior man, when resting in safety, does not forget that danger may come.

  Confucius

  Men, Safety, Doe

  Confucius, Jing Shi (1968). “The Sacred Books of China: The Texts of Confucianism”

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• Happiness exist when you don't know a thing

  The Weeknd

  Knowledge, Chinese Philosophy, Chinese Philosopher

  Song: Montreal, 2011

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

  Confucius

  Love, Inspirational, Funny

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

  Brian Reynolds

  Book, Discipline, Intellectual

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• 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

  Successful, Intelligent, Chinese

  Confucius (2013). “Confucian Analects, The Great Learning & The Doctrine of the Mean”, p.253, Courier Corporation

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• Confucianism strongly condemned the use of drugs like opium.

  Robert Trout

  Drug, Use, Opium

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

  Confucius

  Men, Worry, Know How

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• 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

  Character, Men, Practice

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• Reviewing what you have learned and learning anew, you are fit to be a teacher.

  Confucius

  Teacher, Learning, Knowledge

  "The Analects". Book by Confucius,

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