Confucius
Confucius
Confucius was a Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher of the Spring and Autumn period of Chinese history...
NationalityChinese
ProfessionPhilosopher
CountryChina
want do-unto-others
Don't do unto others what you don't want others to do unto you.
family confucianism teach
It is not possible for one to teach others who cannot teach his own family.
deep-life knows
To know everything is to know nothing, but to know nothing is to know everything.
inspire breathe
When you breathe, you inspire, and when you do not breathe, you expire.
men confucianism superior-man
The superior man is all-embracing and not partial. The inferior man is partial and not all-embracing.
food cutting way
The way you cut your meat reflects the way you live.
happiness men confucianism
If a man has no humaneness what can his propriety be like? If a man has no humaneness what can his happiness be like?
fate today wheels
The wheel of fortune turns round incessantly, and who can say to himself, I shall today be uppermost.
mean
To love a thing means wanting it to live.
education practice confucianism
Isn't it a pleasure to study and practice what you have learned?
happiness being-yourself travel
And remember, no matter where you go, there you are.
honesty men
It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.
failure moon reality
The faults of a superior person are like the sun and moon. They have their faults, and everyone sees them; they change and everyone looks up to them.
knows
To know and not do, is to not yet know.