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Happiness exist when you don't know a thing
He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
Confucianism strongly condemned the use of drugs like opium.
Those who know the TRUTH are not equal to those who love it.
If you don't know how to serve men, why worry about serving the gods?
Therefore the superior man is watchful over himself, when he is alone.
Is virtue a thing remote? I wish to be virtuous, and lo! Virtue is at hand.
All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.
The ku-magic is a very ancient magic. It predates Taoism, Buddhism and Confucianism.
There is nothing more visible than what is secret, and nothing more manifest than what is minute.
Confucianism is all about tempering your instincts with intellectual discipline, with book learning.
The Superior Man is all-embracing and not partial. The inferior man is partial and not all-embracing.
If a man has no humaneness what can his propriety be like? If a man has no humaneness what can his happiness be like?
Life and human society are the chief concern of Confucianism and, through it, the chief concern of the Chinese people.
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.
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.
How can we make sure that Confucianism is to be practiced? One must enforce it with power, and to have power, one must have a strong army.
The world will always need revolution. That doesn't mean shooting and violence. A revolution is when you change your thinking. Confucianism and Christianity were both revolutionary.
Chinese culture in general is not very religious. Confucianism is more a code of ethics than a religion, and ancestor worship is a way for parents to control you even after they're dead.
Under Confucianism, the use of precisely measured court music, prescribed steps, actions, and phrases all added up to an extremely complex system of rituals, each used for a particular purpose at a particular time.
China itself is now in the process of sloughing off not only the communist system, but also those outdated parts of Confucianism that prevent the rapid acquisition of knowledge needed to adjust to new ways of life and work.
20th-century totalitarian movements were no more defined by a rejection of Judeo-Christianity than they were defined by a rejection of astrology, alchemy, Confucianism, Scientology, or any of hundreds of other belief systems.
My mom and my aunties are really devout Christians. My mom married a Muslim when I was 12, so I got teachings from both sides and then other sides because I wanted to find out which way to go. So not only Christianity and Islam, but Confucianism, Shintoism, Taoism, Buddhism, and Judaism. I tried to read everything.