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

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

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

The underlying sickness of human life is an unwillingness to look with open eyes at the condition of the world.

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

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.

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