Another important historical factor is the fact that this already very simple religion was further simplified and purified by the early philosophers of ancient China. Our first great philosopher was a founder of naturalism; and our second great philosopher was an agnostic.

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.

India Conquered and dominated China culturally for 20 centuries without ever having to send a single soldier across her border.

And revolutions always mean the breakdown of old authority.

On July 26, 1916, I announced to all my friends in America that from now on I resolved to write no more poems in the classical language, and to begin my experiments in writing poetry in the so-called vulgar tongue of the people.

In such diffused changes of culture two factors are necessary: contact and understanding.

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