Chines Philosophy Quotes

“You do not yet understand life - how could you understand death?"
- Confucius”
― Michael Puett, The Path: What Chinese Philosophers Can Teach Us About the Good Life

“You can dam and direct the water, and you can force it to remain on the top of a mountain without flowing down. But is this what water's nature really is? It is what you have done to it that makes it so. Humans can also be made to be not good in the same way. "
- Mencius”
― Michael Puett, The Path: What Chinese Philosophers Can Teach Us About the Good Life