Richard Wilhelm Quotes & Sayings

If intellect and will are correctly centered, the emotional life takes on harmony. — Richard Wilhelm

All of Chinese thinking - Confucianism, Taoism, as well as Buddhism - contains the idea that in the course of life, man will shape harmoniously those psychic and physical predispositions that he received as capital assets by unifying them and giving them form from within a center. — Richard Wilhelm

If today people sit and meditate only one or two hours, looking only at their own egos, and call this reflection, how can anything come of it? — Richard Wilhelm

There is a saying in China that the nature of man is found there, in the center, where emotions are not yet manifest. In this center is the potentiality of everything to come. — Richard Wilhelm

We now should be able to see cosmos and individual joined in a relationship. We should see that macrocosm and microcosm are, as it were, only far-flung parts of one unified energy center. — Richard Wilhelm