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Hu Shih

"Practically all the prominent leaders of thought in China today are openly agnostics and even atheists."

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"Practically all the prominent leaders of thought in China today are openly agnostics and even atheists."

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"A perfectly healthy sentence, it is true, is extremely rare. For the most part we miss the hue and fragrance of the thought; as if we could be satisfied with the dews of the morning or evening without their colors, or the heavens without their azure."

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"Once the last trace of emotion has been eradicated, nothing remains of thought but absolute tautology."

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"Yeah, but what if you went back and killed your own grandfather?"He stared at me, baffled. "Why the fuck would you do that?"

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"Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish."

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"When a book raises your spirit, and inspires you with noble and manly thoughts, seek for no other test of its excellence. It is good, and made by a good workman."

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"I'm often asked what I think about as I run. Usually the people who ask this have never run long distances themselves. I always ponder the question. What exactly do I think about when I'm running? I don't have a clue."

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"What is sacred among one people may be ridiculous in another; and what is despised or rejected by one cultural group, may in a different environment become the cornerstone for a great edifice of strange grandeur and beauty."
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"It is only through contact and comparison that the relative value or worthlessness of the various cultural elements can be clearly and critically seen and understood."
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"But I wish to point out that it is entirely wrong to say that the Chinese are not religious."
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"For all the social changes in China can be traced to their early beginnings in the days when the new tools or vehicles of commerce and locomotion first brought the Chinese people into unavoidable contact with the strange ways and novel goods of the Western peoples."
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"The Jesuits had learned that a Christian mission to China could never succeed if it were not in a position to show and convince the Chinese intelligentsia of the superiority of the European culture."
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"Another important historical factor is the fact that this already very simple religion was further simplified and purified by the early philosophers of ancient China. Our first great philosopher was a founder of naturalism; and our second great philosopher was an agnostic."
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"Only when we realize that there is no eternal, unchanging truth or absolute truth can we arouse in ourselves a sense of intellectual responsibility."
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"After learning the language and culture of the Chinese people, these Jesuits began to establish contacts with the young intellectuals of the country."
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"No student of Chinese history can say that the Chinese are incapable of religious experience, even when judged by the standards of medieval Europe or pious India."
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"In the year 1915 a series of trivial incidents led some Chinese students in Cornell University to take up the question of reforming the Chinese language."
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