On the basis of biological, sociological, and historical knowledge, we should recognize that the individual self is subject to death or decay, but the sum total of individual achievement, for better or worse, lives on in the immortality of The Larger.
Hu ShihThe knowledge that mankind needs is not the way or principle which has an absolute existence, but the particular truths for here and now and for particular individuals. Absolute truth is imaginary, abstract, vague, without evidence, and cannot be demonstrated.
Hu ShihBut I wish to point out that it is entirely wrong to say that the Chinese are not religious.
Hu ShihThe underlying sickness of human life is an unwillingness to look with open eyes at the condition of the world.
Hu Shih