Quotes by Hu Shih - Page 1

Confucius was a humanist and an agnostic.
Hu Shih / Philosopher
Agnostic
Humanist
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And revolutions always mean the breakdown of old authority.
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Authority
Breakdown
Mean
Revolution
Revolutions
Old
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Historically, there had been many periods of Chinese Renaissance.
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Chinese
Periods
Renaissance
Historically
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In such diffused changes of culture two factors are necessary: contact and understanding.
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Contact
Culture
Factors
Two
Understanding
Necessary
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But I wish to point out that it is entirely wrong to say that the Chinese are not religious.
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Chinese
Religious
Wish
Entirely
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The Chinese people, too, went through all kinds of vicissitudes in their religious development.
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Chinese
Development
People
Religious
Chinese People
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Practically all the prominent leaders of thought in China today are openly agnostics and even atheists.
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Agnostic
Atheism
Atheist
China
Leader
Prominent
Atheists
Practically
Leaders
Openly
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The underlying sickness of human life is an unwillingness to look with open eyes at the condition of the world.
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Diversity
Eye
Justice
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Life and human society are the chief concern of Confucianism and, through it, the chief concern of the Chinese people.
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Society
Chinese
Concern
Confucianism
Human Society
People
Life People Human
Life Society People
Chief
Chief Concern
Chinese People
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The sun exactly at noon is exactly [beginning to] go down. And a creature when he is born is exactly [beginning to] die.
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Down And
Noon
Sun
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India Conquered and dominated China culturally for 20 centuries without ever having to send a single soldier across her border.
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Independence
China
India
Single
Soldier
Across
Border
Centuries
Conquered
Without
Dominated
Ever
Having
Her
Send
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Only when we realize that there is no eternal, unchanging truth or absolute truth can we arouse in ourselves a sense of intellectual responsibility.
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Absolute Truth
Eternal
Intellectual
Realizing
Responsibility
Unchanging
Absolute
Arouse
Realize
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After learning the language and culture of the Chinese people, these Jesuits began to establish contacts with the young intellectuals of the country.
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Chinese
Began
Chinese People
Contacts
Establish
Intellectuals
Jesuits
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In the year 1915 a series of trivial incidents led some Chinese students in Cornell University to take up the question of reforming the Chinese language.
Hu Shih / Philosopher
Chinese
Incidents
Series
Students
University
Years
Led
Reforming
Trivial
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No student of Chinese history can say that the Chinese are incapable of religious experience, even when judged by the standards of medieval Europe or pious India.
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Experience
History
Chinese
Europe
Incapable
India
Judged
Medieval
Pious
Religious
Religious Experience
Standards
Student
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It is only through contact and comparison that the relative value or worthlessness of the various cultural elements can be clearly and critically seen and understood.
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Comparison
Contact
Elements
Relative
Relative Value
Understood
Worthlessness
Clearly
Critically
Cultural
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It is true that the Chinese are not so religious as the Hindus, or even as the Japanese; and they are certainly not so religious as the Christian missionaries desire them to be.
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Chinese
Christian
Desire
Religious
Certainly
Hindus
Japanese
Missionaries
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The Jesuits had learned that a Christian mission to China could never succeed if it were not in a position to show and convince the Chinese intelligentsia of the superiority of the European culture.
Hu Shih / Philosopher
China
Chinese
Christian
Convince
Culture
Position
Succeed
Superiority
European
Intelligentsia
Jesuits
Mission
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And lastly, the political revolutions from 1911 to the present time have done more to bring about tremendous social changes everywhere than even the economic and industrial changes and the new schools.
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Done
Economic
Political Revolution
Present Time
School
Social
Everywhere
Revolutions
Bring
Time Done Political
Tremendous
Industrial
Lastly
Present
Schools
Social Changes
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Whenever you do something without asking yourself, "Why am I doing this?"-that is meaningless life... . The "why" of life makes it meaningful... . Only when an answer is given is one living life as a man.
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Men
Live Life
Meaningful
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The rise of the dramas in the thirteenth century, and the rise of the great novels in a later period, together with their frank glorification of love and the joys of life, may be called the Third Renaissance.
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Century
Drama
Frank
Glorification
Joy
Renaissance
Together
Life Love Great
Rise
Dramas
Period
Joys
Later
Novels
Third
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Within my own life, I read all the beloved novels by lamps of vegetable oil; I saw the Standard Oil invading my own village, I saw gas lamps in the Chinese shops in Shanghai; and I saw their elimination by electric lights.
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Beloved
Chinese
Electric
Elimination
Gas
Invading
Lamps
Light
Oil
Shanghai
Shops
Vegetables
Village
Saw
Lights
Novels
Standard
Vegetable
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What is sacred among one people may be ridiculous in another; and what is despised or rejected by one cultural group, may in a different environment become the cornerstone for a great edifice of strange grandeur and beauty.
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Beauty
Despised
Different
Edifice
Environment
Grandeur
Groups
May
People
Rejected
Ridiculous
Sacred
Strange
Great May People
Another
Among
Become
Cornerstone
Cultural
Group
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On July 26, 1916, I announced to all my friends in America that from now on I resolved to write no more poems in the classical language, and to begin my experiments in writing poetry in the so-called vulgar tongue of the people.
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America
Experiments
July
Tongue
Vulgar
Writing
Begin
All My Friends
Announced
Classical
Poems
Resolved
So-Called
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On the basis of biological, sociological, and historical knowledge, we should recognize that the individual self is subject to death or decay, but the sum total of individual achievement, for better or worse, lives on in the immortality of The Larger.
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Death
Knowledge
Achievement
Decay
Historical
Historical Knowledge
Immortality
Individual
Self
Sociological
Basis
Biological
Total
Larger
Recognize
Subject
Sum
Sum Total
Worse
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The knowledge that mankind needs is not the way or principle which has an absolute existence, but the particular truths for here and now and for particular individuals. Absolute truth is imaginary, abstract, vague, without evidence, and cannot be demonstrated.
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Truth
Needs
Principles
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For all the social changes in China can be traced to their early beginnings in the days when the new tools or vehicles of commerce and locomotion first brought the Chinese people into unavoidable contact with the strange ways and novel goods of the Western peoples.
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China
Chinese
Commerce
Contact
Goods
Novel
People
Strange
Tools
Western
Beginnings
Brought
Chinese People
Early
Social Changes
Unavoidable
Vehicles
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Another important historical factor is the fact that this already very simple religion was further simplified and purified by the early philosophers of ancient China. Our first great philosopher was a founder of naturalism; and our second great philosopher was an agnostic.
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Religion
Agnostic
Ancient
China
Historical
Naturalism
Philosopher
Simple
Early
Fact
Founder
Further
Purified
Second
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Even the absolute universality of the law of causality does not necessarily limit a person's freedom, because the law of causality not only enables him to explain the past and predict the future, but also encourages him to use his intelligence to create new causes and attain new results.
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Doe
Law
Past
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Grasp the opportunity with both hands to feel really very special as an Indian reading these quotes on the Indian Independence Day. A number of famous and reputed persons have thrown some light on the chapter of Indian Independence. India conquered and dominated China culturally for 20 centuries without ever having to send a single soldier across her border!"
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Opportunity
Light
Reading
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The most outstanding characteristic of Eastern civilization is to know contentment, whereas that of Western civilization is not to know contentment. Contented Easterners are satisfied with their simple life and therefore do not seek to increase their material enjoyment... They are satisfied with their present lot and environment and therefore do not want to conquer nature but merely be at home with nature and at peace with their lot.
Hu Shih / Philosopher
Home
Civilization
Simple
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