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Practically all the prominent leaders of thought in China today are openly agnostics and even atheists.


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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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The Chinese people, too, went through all kinds of vicissitudes in their religious development.



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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.



The underlying sickness of human life is an unwillingness to look with open eyes at the condition of the world.

The underlying sickness of human life is an unwillingness to look with open eyes at the condition of the world.



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Confucius was a humanist and an agnostic.



The sun exactly at noon is exactly [beginning to] go down. And a creature when he is born is exactly [beginning to] die.

The sun exactly at noon is exactly [beginning to] go down. And a creature when he is born is exactly [beginning to] die.



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.

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



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.

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.





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