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.
Hu ShihLife and human society are the chief concern of Confucianism and, through it, the chief concern of the Chinese people.
Hu ShihThe sun exactly at noon is exactly [beginning to] go down. And a creature when he is born is exactly [beginning to] die.
Hu ShihThe Chinese people, too, went through all kinds of vicissitudes in their religious development.
Hu Shih