The 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.

But I wish to point out that it is entirely wrong to say that the Chinese are not religious.

The Jesuits had learned that a Christian mission to China could never succeed if it were not in a position to show and convince the Chinese intelligentsia of the superiority of the European culture.

And revolutions always mean the breakdown of old authority.

Confucius was a humanist and an agnostic.

In the year 1915 a series of trivial incidents led some Chinese students in Cornell University to take up the question of reforming the Chinese language.

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