Confucianism Quotes

Confucianism Quote of the day

Happiness exist when you don't know a thing

Those who know the TRUTH are not equal to those who love it.

All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.

If your desire is for good, the people will be good.

If a man has no humaneness what can his propriety be like? If a man has no humaneness what can his happiness be like?

If you don't know how to serve men, why worry about serving the gods?

There is nothing more visible than what is secret, and nothing more manifest than what is minute.

Therefore the superior man is watchful over himself, when he is alone.

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.

The Superior Man is all-embracing and not partial. The inferior man is partial and not all-embracing.

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.

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

Is virtue a thing remote? I wish to be virtuous, and lo! Virtue is at hand.

Confucianism strongly condemned the use of drugs like opium.

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 theyre dead.

I was raised a Christian but have looked at other religions, some of the Eastern things. I was into Taoism for a while and Confucianism. Just different approaches and some have really stayed with me.

Confucianism is all about tempering your instincts with intellectual discipline, with book learning.