Nick’s Reviews > The Complete Confucius: The Analects, The Doctrine Of The Mean, and The Great Learning with an Introduction by Nicholas Tamblyn > Status Update

“When the mind is not present, we look and do not see; we hear and do not understand; we eat and do not know the taste of what we eat.”

"If doing what is to be done be made the first business, and success a secondary consideration—is not this the way to exalt virtue? To assail one's own wickedness and not assail that of others—is not this the way to correct cherished evil? For a morning's anger to disregard one's own life, and involve that of his parents—is not this a case of delusion?"

“To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short.”

“The Master said, ‘Yu, shall I teach you what knowledge is? When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it—this is knowledge.’”