The sun exactly at noon is exactly [beginning to] go down. And a creature when he is born is exactly [beginning to] die.

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.

Only when we realize that there is no eternal, unchanging truth or absolute truth can we arouse in ourselves a sense of intellectual responsibility.

Practically all the prominent leaders of thought in China today are openly agnostics and even atheists.

The Chinese people, too, went through all kinds of vicissitudes in their religious development.

Confucius was a humanist and an agnostic.

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.