Where one is hopelessly undecided as to what to say, there (as Confucius would have said, if they had given him the opportunity) s...ilence is golden.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I do not remember anything which Confucius has said directly respecting man's "origin, purpose, and destiny." He was more practica...l than that. He is full of wisdom applied to human relations,--to the private life,--the family,--government, etc. It is remarkable that, according to his own account, the sum and substance of his teaching is, as you know, to do as you would be done by.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A township where one primitive forest waves above while another primitive forest rots below,--such a town is fitted to raise not o...nly corn and potatoes, but poets and philosophers for the coming ages. In such a soil grew Homer and Confucius and the rest, and out of such a wilderness comes the Reformer eating locusts and wild honey.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I am so far from thinking the maxims of Confucius and Jesus Christ to differ, that I think the plain and simple maxims of the form...er, will help to illustrate the more obscure ones of the latter, accommodated to the then way of speaking.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The white man regards the universe as a gigantic machine hurtling through time and space to its final destruction: individuals in ...it are but tiny organisms with private lives that lead to private deaths: personal power, success and fame are the absolute measures of values, the things to live for. This outlook on life divides the universe into a host of individual little entities which cannot help being in constant conflict thereby hastening the approach of the hour of their final destruction.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To deny the need for comprehensive child care policies is to deny a reality--that there's been a revolution in American life. Gran...dma doesn't live next door anymore, Mom doesn't work just because she'd like a few bucks for the sugar bowl.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I don't think of myself as a sex symbol or a servant. I think of myself as somebody who knows how to open the door of a 747 in the... dark, upside down, and under water.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »