Confucianism Family Quotes & Sayings

During his interviews, he was unable to find essential answers to his ultimate questions: 1. What is man? 2. How should man live? — Nathan Bellow

Science is the one culture that's truly global - protons, proteins and Pythagoras's Theorem are the same from China to Peru. It should transcend all barriers of nationality. It should straddle all faiths, too. — Martin Rees

Our rash faults
Make trivial price of serious thing we have,
Not knowing them until we know their grave. — William Shakespeare

Socialism increases in direct ratio and proportion with the surrender of personal responsibility to neighbor. — Fulton J. Sheen

Later, that dozy embrace solidified in his memory as the single moment of artless, charmed happiness in their separate and difficult lives. — Annie Proulx

What's wrong with the world and what can we do to change it? — Oprah Winfrey

To tell the truth, my dear count, I must own that of all nauseating human emanations, literature is one of those which disgust me most. I can see nothing in it but compromise and flattery. And I go so far as to doubt whether it can be anything else. — Andre Gide

My philosophy is that, in life, you have to want something. If you just say "la-la-la" and go through life without a goal, nothing will happen. — Heidi Klum

The big news already broke. The file-sharing and all that stuff, it's a done deal. And I think figuring out how to make that a fair exchange for the people that make music is still an issue. — Liz Phair

My earlier poems were sadder than my poems are today, perhaps because I wrote them in confusion or when I was unhappy. But I am not a melancholy person, quite the contrary, no one enjoys laughing more than I do. — Anne Stevenson

It is a hard cycle to conquer. The body is working against you. And because of this, you feel even more despair. Which only amplifies the imbalance. It takes uncommon strength to live with these things. — David Levithan

Time hath often cured the wound which reason failed to heal. — Seneca The Younger

If country life be healthful to the body, it is no less so to the mind. — Giovanni Ruffini

Men have been taught that the ego is the synonym of evil, and selflessness the ideal of virtue. But the creator is the egotist in the absolute sense, and the selfless man is the one who does not think, feel, judge or act. These are functions of the self. — Ayn Rand

It is not possible for one to teach others who cannot teach his own family. — Confucius