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

India Conquered and dominated China culturally for 20 centuries without ever having to send a single soldier across her border.

Only when we realize that there is no eternal, unchanging truth or absolute truth can we arouse in ourselves a sense of intellectual responsibility.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

News is only the first rough draft of history.

Success is not worth rejoicing over, failure is not worth grieving over.

The economic repercussions of a stock market crash depend less on the severity of the crash itself than on the response of economic policymakers, particularly central bankers.

If I define my neighbor as the one I must go out to look for, on the highways and byways, in the factories and slums, on the farms and in the mines, then my world changes.

I like nature but not its substitutes... Mondrian opposed art to nature saying that art is artificial and nature is natural. I do not share this opinion... Art's origins are natural.

Women, it turns out, are built to lead - particularly in the modern world.

Title everything you do, if for no other reason than so you can find it again on your computer.

I couldn't direct because I'm too impatient and I couldn't put together a package because I don't understand money. I'd rather just do what I'm doing.

You can't mess up. If you do, everyone wants to kill you.

Do i really want him dead? What i want... what i want is to have him back.