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Confucian Quotes

Happiness exist when you don't know a thing

Happiness exist when you don't know a thing

The Weeknd
Knowledge, Confucianism, Chinese Philosophy
Song: Montreal, 2011

He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.

Confucius
War, Self Control, Confucianism

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

Morarji Desai
Wrestling, Difficult And Easy, Confucianism
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.

Those who know the TRUTH are not equal to those who love it.

Confucius
Truth, Knowledge, Confucianism
Confucius (2012). “The Analects of Confucius In Plain and Simple English: BookCaps Study Guide”, BookCaps Study Guides

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

Confucius
Men, Worry, Confucianism

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
Happiness, Men, Confucianism
"The Analects". Book by Confucius,

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

Confucius
Character, Men, Confucianism
Confucius (2013). “Doctrine of The Mean (or How to Achieve Equilibrium)”, p.3, e-artnow

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

Confucius
Character, Secret, Confucianism
Confucius (2013). “Confucian Analects, The Great Learning & The Doctrine of the Mean”, p.384, Courier Corporation

The Superior Man is all-embracing and not partial. The inferior man is partial and not all-embracing.

Confucius
Character, Men, Confucianism
"The Analects". Book by Confucius,

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
Dignity, Confucianism, Virtue
Confucius (2016). “The Analects”, p.18, Open Road Media

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
Truth, Delight, Confucianism
Confucius (2012). “The Analects of Confucius In Plain and Simple English: BookCaps Study Guide”, BookCaps Study Guides

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

Hu Shih
People, Chinese, Confucianism

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

Confucius
Hands, Wish, Confucianism
Confucius (2012). “The Analects of Confucius In Plain and Simple English: BookCaps Study Guide”, p.57, BookCaps Study Guides

Confucianism strongly condemned the use of drugs like opium.

Robert Trout
Drug, Use, Confucianism

There is one God. The Jews and the Christians have no monopoly on God. I'm speaking about the same God the Hindus talk about, the same God the Muslims talk about, the same God that the Taoists and the Confucians talk about.

Marianne Williamson
Christian, Monopoly, Confucian
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