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Sage | Source | Quote |
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Zisi | Doctrine of the Mean, Maintaining Perfect Balance, Zhongyong 中庸 | The way of the superior man is hidden but becomes more prominent every day, whereas the way of the inferior man is conspicuous but gradually disappears. |
Zisi | Doctrine of the Mean, Maintaining Perfect Balance, Zhongyong 中庸 | The skilled reader turns it over and over in his mind, and once he gets it, draws on it his whole life, finding that it has no limits. |
Zisi | Doctrine of the Mean, Maintaining Perfect Balance, Zhongyong 中庸 | Maintain perfect balance in each and every set of circumstances and thus keep to steadfast principle at all times. |
Zisi | Doctrine of the Mean, Maintaining Perfect Balance, Zhongyong 中庸 | Use oneness [truthfulness] to put the 3 universal world virtues—wisdom, goodness, and courage—into practice. |
Zisi | Doctrine of the Mean, Maintaining Perfect Balance, Zhongyong 中庸 | Knowing how to cultivate oneself is to know how to govern others; knowing how to govern others is to know how to govern the empire, the state, and the family. |
Zisi | Doctrine of the Mean, Maintaining Perfect Balance, Zhongyong 中庸 | Those who turn inward and find that they are not true to themselves cannot govern the people well. |
Zisi | Doctrine of the Mean, Maintaining Perfect Balance, Zhongyong 中庸 | When understanding proceeds from truthfulness, one truly understands. |
Zisi | Doctrine of the Mean, Maintaining Perfect Balance, Zhongyong 中庸 | The most truthful and capable of giving full realization to their human nature can form a trinity, a union of heaven, earth, and man. |
Zisi | Doctrine of the Mean, Maintaining Perfect Balance, Zhongyong 中庸 | Truthfulness is the beginning and end of things; without truthfulness, there is nothing. |
Zisi | Doctrine of the Mean, Maintaining Perfect Balance, Zhongyong 中庸 | Cultivating shoots of goodness gives form to truthfulness that then burns bright influencing and transforming the people. |
Zisi | Doctrine of the Mean, Maintaining Perfect Balance, Zhongyong 中庸 | Completion of the self is true goodness…the Way that unites external and internal. |
Zisi | Doctrine of the Mean, Maintaining Perfect Balance, Zhongyong 中庸 | Perfect truthfulness though unmoving, creates change; though taking no action, brings about completion; though making no display, becomes manifest. |
Zisi | Doctrine of the Mean, Maintaining Perfect Balance, Zhongyong 中庸 | The sage honors his inborn, basic goodness rising in influence when sanity reigns in society; enduring protected by silence when the Way does not prevail. |
Zisi | Whoever is his true self has an understanding of the universe; whoever has a true understanding of the universe realizes his true self. | |
Zisi | The god-given is called Nature; to follow that nature is called Tao; to cultivate the Tao is called Culture. | |
Zisi | The way of great learning is keeping clear our original, clear, basic goodness. | |
Zisi | Doctrine of the Mean, Maintaining Perfect Balance, Zhongyong 中庸 | The Tao is the way things are which you can't depart from even for one instant. |
Zhu Xi | Four Books | There is no fixed shape to the preservation of perfect balance; it depends on the circumstances of the moment. |
Zhu Xi | Four Books | Only by carefully considering each set of circumstances, and following what’s called for by those circumstances can one act in accord with the appropriate course of action. |
Zhu Xi | The feminine, the valley, the spontaneity of spiritual transformation, this subtle and profound way to wonder is the most powerfully creative principle |