Quotes by Xun Kuang - Page 1

Human nature is what Heaven supplies.
Xun Kuang /
Heaven
Human Nature
Supplies
Nature Human Human Nature
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Pride and excess bring disaster for man.
Xun Kuang /
Disaster
Excess
Pride
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A person is born with a liking for profit.
Xun Kuang /
Born
Profit
Liking
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Mencius said that human nature is good. I disagree with that.
Xun Kuang /
Disagree
Human Nature
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Sacrifices are concerned with the feelings of devotion and longing.
Xun Kuang /
Concerned
Devotion
Longing
Sacrifices
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The person attempting to travel two roads at once will get nowhere.
Xun Kuang /
Travel
Attempting
Two
Will
Person
Once
Get
Nowhere
Roads
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Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity.
Xun Kuang /
Nature
Activity
Evil
Goodness
Human Nature
Caused
Human
Intentional
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The coming of honor or disgrace must be a reflection of one's inner power.
Xun Kuang /
Disgrace
Honor
Reflection
Inner
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If the blood humor is too strong and robust, calm it with balance and harmony.
Xun Kuang /
Humor
Balance
Blood
Calm
Harmony
Robust
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The rigid cause themselves to be broken; the pliable cause themselves to be bound.
Xun Kuang /
Broken
Bound
Pliable
Rigid
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Those whose character is mean and vicious will rouse others to animosity against them.
Xun Kuang /
Animosity
Vicious
Rouse
Whose
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Human nature refers to what is in people but which they cannot study or work at achieving.
Xun Kuang /
Study
Achieving
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If knowledge and foresight are too penetrating and deep, unify them with ease and sincerity.
Xun Kuang /
Knowledge
Ease
Foresight
Sincerity
Deep
Penetrating
Unify
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I once tried thinking for an entire day, but I found it less valuable than one moment of study.
Xun Kuang /
Study
Thinking
Valuable
Entire
Moment
Tried
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If the impulse to daring and bravery is too fierce and violent, stay it with guidance and instruction.
Xun Kuang /
Bravery
Daring
Guidance
Impulse
Instruction
Violent
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Whether the gentleman is capable or not, he is loved all the same; conversely the petty man is loathed all the same.
Xun Kuang /
Capable
Gentleman
Petty
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When you concentrate on agriculture and industry and are frugal in expenditures, Heaven cannot impoverish your state.
Xun Kuang /
Agriculture
Expenditures
Frugal
Heaven
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Music is a fantastic peacekeeper of the world, it is integral to harmony, and it is a required fundamental of human emotion.
Xun Kuang /
Emotion
Fantastic
Harmony
Fundamental
Integral
Required
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There are successful scholars, public-spirited scholars, upright scholars, cautious scholars, and those who are merely petty men.
Xun Kuang /
Cautious
Petty
Merely
Scholars
Upright
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If the quickness of the mind and the fluency of the tongue are too punctilious and sharp, moderate them in your activity and rest.
Xun Kuang /
Activity
Fluency
Quickness
Tongue
Moderate
Sharp
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If what the heart approves conforms to proper patterns, then even if one's desires are many, what harm would they be to good order?
Xun Kuang /
Harm
Patterns
Approve
Desires
Proper
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When you locate good in yourself, approve of it with determination. When you locate evil in yourself, despise it as something detestable.
Xun Kuang /
Despise
Determination
Evil
Approve
Locate
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I once tried standing up on my toes to see far out in the distance, but I found that I could see much farther by climbing to a high place.
Xun Kuang /
Climbing
Distance
Standing
Toes
Could
High
Far
Farther
Place
Standing Up
Tried
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If the gentleman has ability, he is magnanimous, generous, tolerant, and straightforward, through which he opens the way to instruct others.
Xun Kuang /
Generous
Gentleman
Magnanimous
Straightforward
Opens
Tolerant
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In order to properly understand the big picture, everyone should fear becoming mentally clouded and obsessed with one small section of truth.
Xun Kuang /
Truth
Becoming
Big Picture
Clouded
Obsessed
Order
Should
Picture
Understand
Mentally
Everyone
Small
Properly
Section
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I say that human nature is the original beginning and the raw material, and deliberate effort is what makes it patterned, ordered, and exalted.
Xun Kuang /
Deliberate
Effort
Exalted
Human Nature
Beginning
Original
Material
Ordered
Raw
Raw Material
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In antiquity the sage kings recognized that men's nature is bad and that their tendencies were not being corrected and their lawlessness controlled.
Xun Kuang /
Antiquity
Controlled
Lawlessness
Sage
Tendencies
Corrected
Recognized
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Since the nature of people is bad, to become corrected they must be taught by teachers and to be orderly they must acquire ritual and moral principles.
Xun Kuang /
Acquire
Moral
Moral Principles
Orderly
Principles
Ritual
Teachers
Corrected
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When people lack teachers, their tendencies are not corrected; when they do not have ritual and moral principles, then their lawlessness is not controlled.
Xun Kuang /
Teacher
Controlled
Lawlessness
Moral
Moral Principles
Principles
Ritual
Tendencies
Then
Teachers
Corrected
Lack
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Human nature and deliberate effort must unite, and then the reputation of the sage and the work of unifying all under Heaven are thereupon brought to completion.
Xun Kuang /
Completion
Deliberate
Effort
Heaven
Human Nature
Reputation
Sage
Unifying
Brought
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Now it is human nature to want to eat to ones fill when hungry, to want to warm up when cold, to want to rest when tired. These all are a part of people's emotional nature.
Xun Kuang /
Cold
Human Nature
Hungry
Tired
Warm
Rest
Fill
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A person is born with feelings of envy and hate. If he gives way to them, they will lead him to violence and crime, and any sense of loyalty and good faith will be abandoned.
Xun Kuang /
Loyalty
Faith
Good
Abandoned
Born
Crime
Envy
Feelings
Good Faith
Hate
Violence
Will
Person
Any
He
Them
Lead
Gives
Him
Sense
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Thus, anybody who follows this nature and gives way its states will be led into quarrels and conflicts, and go against the conventions and rules of society, and will end up a criminal.
Xun Kuang /
Conventions
Quarrels
Rules
Nature Society Way
Conflicts
Criminal
Follows
Led
Thus
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If there were no human nature, then there would be nothing for deliberate effort to be applied to. If there were no deliberate effort, then human nature would not be able to beautify itself.
Xun Kuang /
Deliberate
Effort
Human Nature
Nature Nothing Human
Applied
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Human nature is such that people are born with a love of profit If they follow these inclinations, they will struggle and snatch from each other, and inclinations to defer or yield will die.
Xun Kuang /
Human Nature
Profit
Struggle
Yield
Defer
Follow
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Thus, that one can find no place to walk through the breadth of the earth is not because the earth is not tranquil but because the danger to every step of the traveler lies generally with words.
Xun Kuang /
Breadth
Danger
Every Step
Tranquil
Generally
Walk
Lies
Step
Thus
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Therefore, a person should first be changed by a teacher's instructions, and guided by principles of ritual. Only then can he observe the rules of courtesy and humility, obey the conventions and rules of society, and achieve order.
Xun Kuang /
Society
Achieve
Changed
Conventions
Courtesy
Humility
Order
Principles
Ritual
Rules
Guided
Instructions
Obey
Observe
Therefore
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A person is born with desires of the eyes and ears, and a liking for beautiful sights and sounds. If he gives way to them, they will lead him to immorality and lack of restriction, and any ritual principles and propriety will be abandoned.
Xun Kuang /
Abandoned
Ears
Immorality
Principles
Propriety
Restriction
Ritual
Desires
Eyes
Lead
Gives
Liking
Sights
Sounds
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When a man sees something desirable, he must reflect on the fact that with time it could come to involve what is detestable. When he sees something that is beneficial, he should reflect that sooner or later it, too, could come to involve harm.
Xun Kuang /
Beneficial
Desirable
Harm
Sooner Or Later
Time Man Must
Sooner
Detestable
Involve
Reflect
Sees
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The petty man is eager to make boasts, yet desires that others should believe in him. He enthusiastically engages in deception, yet wants others to have affection for him. He conducts himself like an animal, yet wants others to think well of him.
Xun Kuang /
Affection
Animal
Believe
Boast
Deception
Petty
Should
Like
Make
He
Desires
Eager
Enthusiastically
Him
Others
Well
Wants
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Quarreling over food and drink, having neither scruples nor shame, not knowing right from wrong, not trying to avoid death or injury, not fearful of greater strength or of greater numbers, greedily aware only of food and drink - such is the bravery of the dog and boar.
Xun Kuang /
Bravery
Fearful
Greater
Injury
Not Knowing
Numbers
Scruples
Avoid
Aware
Neither
Nor
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