Background Image

...

All Things Are Nourished Together Without Their Injuring One Another. The Courses Of The Seasons, And Of The Sun And Moon, Are Pursued Without Any Collision Among Them. The Smaller Energies Are Like River Currents; The Greater Energies Are Seen In Mighty Transformations. It Is This Which Makes Heaven And Earth So Great.

-Confucius

...

Please Wait....
Translating....

All Things Are Nourished

Confucius

...

All Things Are Nourished Together Without Their Injuring One Another. The Courses Of The Seasons, And Of The Sun And Moon, Are Pursued Without Any Collision Among Them. The Smaller Energies Are Like River Currents; The Greater Energies Are Seen In Mighty Transformations. It Is This Which Makes Heaven And Earth So Great.

Views: 15

Topic

More From Confucius

When You Breathe, You Inspire, And When You Do Not Breathe, You Expire.

The Real Fault Is To Have Faults And Not Amend Them.

One Who Will Study For Three Years. Without Thought Of Reward. Would Be Hard Indeed To Find.

By Nature, Men Are Nearly Alike; By Practice, They Get To Be Wide Apart.

Heaven Gives Long Life To The Just And The Intelligent.

Don’t Complain About The Snow On Your Neighbor’s Roof When Your Own Doorstep Is Unclean.

The Master Said Of Gong Yechang, “he Is Marriageable. Although He Was Once Imprisoned And Branded As A Criminal, He Was In Fact Innocent Of Any Crime.” The Master Gave Him His Daughter In Marriage. (analects 5.1)

A Reasonable Man Adjusts Himself To The World. An Unreasonable Man Expects The World To Adjust Itself To Him. Therefore All Progress Is Made By Unreasonable People.

Great Is The Man Who Can Overcome The World, But Greater Still Is The Man Who Can Overcome Himself, For He Will Have The World Spinning On The Palm Of His Hand.

Love Makes A Spot Beautiful: Who Chooses Not To Dwell In Love, Has He Got Wisdom?

Recompense Injury With Justice, And Recompense Kindness With Kindness.

The Master Said, 'quietly To Store Up Knowledge In My Mind, To Learn Without Flagging, To Teach Without Growing Weary, These Present Me With No Difficulties.'

If You Yourself Desire Establishment, Then Help Others To Get Establishment; If You Yourself Want Success, Then Help Others To Attain Success.

Learn As If You Were Not Reaching Your Goal And As Though You Were Scared Of Missing It

A Hammer Shatters Glass But It Also Forges Steel.

There Are Three Things To Beware Of Through Life: When A Man Is Young, Let Him Beware Of His Appetites; When He Is Middle-aged, Of His Passions; And When Old, Of Covetousness, Especially.

Education Breeds Confidence. Confidence Breeds Hope. Hope Breeds Peace.

Powerful Weapons

Sincerity Is That Whereby Self-completion Is Effected, And Its Way Is That By Which Man Must Direct Himself.

Music Produces A Kind Of Pleasure Which Human Nature Cannot Do Without.

The Wheel Of Fortune Turns Round Incessantly, And Who Can Say To Himself, I Shall Today Be Uppermost.

Rather Than Caring About Whether Or Not You Are Known, Strive To Be Worth Knowing.

Without That Innate Sense Of Human Worth, A Man Cannot Long Endure Adversity, Nor Can He Long Enjoy Prosperity.

I'd Rather Die For Speaking Out, Than To Live And Be Silent.

A Man Living Without Conflicts, As If He Never Lives At All.

Have No Friends Not Equal To Yourself.

If You Make A Mistake And Do Not Correct It, This Is Called A Mistake.

The Person Who Is Not Strong Enough Gives Up At The Halfway Point - But You Are Limiting Yourself Before Even Starting.

Don't Worry That Other People Don't Know You; Worry That You Don't Know Other People.

To See And Listen To The Wicked Is Already The Beginning Of Wickedness.

Make Faithfulness And Truth Thy Masters: Have No Friends Unlike Thyself: Be Not Ashamed To Mend Thy Faults.

When A Wise Man Points At The Moon The Imbecile Examines The Finger.

Virtue Is Not Left To Stand Alone. He Who Practices It Will Have Neighbors.

Friendship With The Upright, With The Truthful And With The Well Informed Is Beneficial. Friendship With Those Who Flatter, With Those Who Are Meek And Who Compromise With Principles, And With Those Who Talk Cleverly Is Harmful.

Let Our Reason, And Not Our Senses, Be The Rule Of Our Conduct; For Reason Will Teach Us To Think Wisely, To Speak Prudently, And To Behave Worthily.

If I Am Building A Mountain And Stop Before The Last Basketful Of Earth Is Placed On The Summit, I Have Failed.

There Are Three Unfilial Acts: The Greatest Of These Is The Failure To Produce Sons.

Sincerity Is The Way Of Heaven.

The True Gentleman Does Not Preach What He Practices Till He Has Practiced What He Preaches.

He Who Knows And Knows That He Knows Is A Wise Man - Follow Him; He Who Knows Not And Knows Not That He Knows Not Is A Fool - Shun Him

To Know, Is To Know That You Know Nothing. That Is The Meaning Of True Knowledge. When You Say Something, Say What You Know. When You Don't Know Something, Say You Don't Know. That Is Knowledge.

To See What Is Right And Not To Do It Is Want Of Courage, Or Of Principle.

Only One Who Bursts With Enthusiasm Do I Instruct; Only One Who Bubbles With Excitement Do I Enlighten. If I Hold Up One Corner And You Do Not Come Back To Me With The Other Three, I Do Not Continue The Lesson.

All Things Are Nourished Together Without Their Injuring One Another. The Courses Of The Seasons, And Of The Sun And Moon, Are Pursued Without Any Collision Among Them. The Smaller Energies Are Like River Currents; The Greater Energies Are Seen In Mighty Transformations. It Is This Which Makes Heaven And Earth So Great.

Excess Weakens The Spirits.

When I Am With Others, They Are My Teachers. I Can Select Their Good Points And Follow Them, And Select Their Bad Points And Avoid Them.

Go Before The People With Your Example, And Be Laborious In Their Affairs.

If You Know, Say You Know. If You Don't Know, Say You Don't Know.

The Rich Fool Is Like A Pig That Is Choked By Its Own Fat.

If A Man Is Not Good, What Has He To Do With The Rules Of Propriety? If He Is Not Good, What Has He To Do With Music?

The Master Said, If Out Of The Three Hundred Songs I Had To Take One Phrase To Cover All My Teachings, I Would Say 'let There Be No Evil In Your Thoughts.'

Is Virtue A Thing Remote? I Wish To Be Virtuous, And Lo! Virtue Is At Hand.

Ah, Music, Sacred Tongue Of God! I Hear Thee Calling And I Come.

To Rein A Kingdom Efficiently It Is Necessary, Before All, To Put Into Good Order The Family. It's Impossible For A Man Who Doesn't Know How To Lead His Own Family To Know How To Lead A Country.

If You Think In Terms Of A Year, Plant A Seed; If In Terms Of Ten Years, Plant Trees; If In Terms Of 100 Years, Teach The People.

Do Not Worry If Others Do Not Understand You. Instead Worry If You Do Not Understand Others.

To Know Is To Know That You Know Nothing. That Is The Meaning Of True Knowledge.

The Superior Man... Does Not Set His Mind Either For Or Against Anything, He Will Pursue Whatever Is Right. The Superior Man Thinks Of Virtue, The Common Man Of Comfort.

Every Truth Has Four Corners: As A Teacher I Give You One Corner, And It Is For You To Find The Other Three.

The Failure To Cultivate Virtue, The Failure To Examine And Analyze What I Have Learned, The Inability To Move Toward Righteousness After Being Shown The Way, The Inability To Correct My Faults-these Are The Causes Of My Grief.

Be Not Ashamed Of Mistakes And Thus Make Them Crimes.

Be Loyal To Yourself, Charitable To Neighbours, Nothing More.

They Who Know The Truth Are Not Equal To Those Who Love It, And They Who Love It Are Not Equal To Those Who Delight In It.

The Hardest Thing Of All Is To Find A Black Cat In A Dark Room, Especially If There Is No Cat.

The Way Of The Superior Man May Be Compared To What Takes Place In Traveling, When To Go To A Distance We Must First Traverse The Space That Is Near, And In Ascending A Height, When We Must Begin From The Lower Ground.

Clever Talk Can Confound The Workings Of Virtue, Just As Small Impatiences Can Confound Great Projects.

Chi Wen Tzu Always Thought Three Times Before Taking Action. Twice Would Have Been Quite Enough.

How Transcendent Is The Virtue Of The Middle Conduct! Rare For A Long Time Has Been Its Practice Among The People.

The Gentleman Calls Attention To The Good Points In Others; He Does Not Call Attention To Their Defects. The Small Man Does Just The Reverse Of This.

Don't Make To Others What You Don't Want Them To Make To You.

The Superior Man Acts Before He Speaks, And Afterwards Speaks According To His Action.

If Your Plan Is For One Year Plant Rice. If Your Plan Is For Ten Years Plant Trees. If Your Plan Is For One Hundred Years Educate Children.

The Master Said, I Set My Heart On The Way, Base Myself On Virtue, Lean Upon Benevolence For Support And Take My Recreation In The Arts.

A Good Man Will Certainly Also Possess Courage; But A Brave Man Is Not Necessarily Good.

If I Am Walking With Two Other Men, Each Of Them Will Serve As My Teacher. I Will Pick Out The Good Points Of The One And Imitate Them, And The Bad Points Of The Other And Correct Them In Myself.

Love Of Goodness Without Love Of Learning Degenerates Into Simple-mindedness. Love Of Knowledge Without Love Of Learning Degenerates Into Utter Lack Of Principle. Love Of Faithfulness Without Love Of Learning Degenerates Into Injurious Disregard Of Consequences. Love Of Uprightness Without Love Of Learning Degenerates Into Harshness. Love Of Courage Without Love Of Learning Degenerates Into Insubordination. Love Of Strong Character Without Love Of Learning Degenerates Into Mere Recklessness.

People With Virtue Must Speak Out; People Who Speak Are Not All Virtuous.

A Truly Great Man Never Puts Away The Simplicity Of A Child.

Please Stop Waiting For A Better And More Appropriate Time To Become Happy And Focus On The Moment You Live In. Happiness Is Not An Arrival, It Is The Journey Itself. Many People Seek For Happiness Above The Height Of Human Beings, Some Below. Yet, Happiness Is Exactly At The Exact Height Of Human Beings.

There Are 1,000 Lessons In Defeat. But Only One In Victory.

Girl Who Sit On Judge's Lap Get Honorable Discharge.

If Proper In Their Own Conduct, What Difficulty Would They Have In Governing? But If Not Able To Be Proper In Their Own Conduct, How Can They Demand Such Conduct From Others?

A True Gentleman Makes Demands Upon Himself But Not Upon Others.

Every Journey Starts With A Single Step.

When You See A Good Man, Think Of Emulating Him; When You See A Bad Man, Examine Your Own Heart.

Some Are Born With Knowledge, Some Derive It From Study, And Some Acquire It Only After A Painful Realization Of Their Ignorance. But The Knowledge Being Possessed, It Comes To The Same Thing. Some Study With A Natural Ease, Some From A Desire For Advantages, And Some By Strenuous Effort. But The Achievement Being Made, It Comes To The Same Thing.

A Youth Is To Be Regarded With Respect. How Do We Know That His Future Will Not Be Equal To Our Present?

Do Not Unto Another That You Would Hot Have Him Do Unto You. Thou Needest This Law Alone. It Is The Foundation Of All The Rest.

If You Devote Your Life To Seeking Revenge, First Dig Two Graves.

Ignorance Is The Night Of The Mind, But A Night Without Moon Or Star.

Justice For All In The World

Justice For All

He Who Merely Knows Right Principles Is Not Equal To Him Who Loves Them.

A Workman Who Wants To Do His Work Well Must First Prepare His Tools.

There Is No Body But Eats And Drinks. But They Are Few Who Can Distinguish Flavors.

The Gentleman Desires To Be Halting In Speech But Quick In Action.

The Man Who Is Master Of Himself Drinks Gravely And Wisely.

What Can A Man Do With Music Who Is Not Benevolent?

The Difference Between Ordinary And Extraordinary Is That Little Extra. The Question Isn't Who Is Going To Let Me; It's Who Is Going To Stop Me You Don't Have To See The Whole Staircase, Just Take The First Step The Man Who Moves A Mountain Begins By Carrying Away Small Stones.

First There Must Be Order And Harmony Within Your Own Mind. Then This Order Will Spread To Your Family, Then To The Community, And Finally To Your Entire Kingdom. Only Then Can You Have Peace And Harmony.

Can There Be A Love Which Does Not Make Demands On Its Object?

By Gaining The People, The Kingdom Is Gained; By Losing The People, The Kingdom Is Lost.

Gentlemen Should Not Waste Their Time On Trivial Games -- They Should Play Go[3]

The Superior Man Is Slow In His Words And Earnest In His Conduct.

A Scholar Who Loves Comfort Is Not Fit To Be Called A Scholar.

Is There Any One Maxim Which Ought To Be Acted Upon Throughout One's Whole Life? Surely The Maxim Of Loving Kindness Is Such: Do Not Unto Others What You Would Not They Should Do Unto You.

Listen Widely To Remove Your Doubts And Be Careful When Speaking About The Rest And Your Mistakes Will Be Few.

Hold Faithfulness And Sincerity As First Principles.

Some May Study Side By Side, And Yet Be Asunder When They Come To The Logic Of Things.

In A District Of Ten Families, There Must Be Someone As Honorable And Sincere As I, But None As Fond Of Learning.

There Has Never Been A Man Mean And At The Same Time Virtuous.

The Superior Man Is Intelligently, Not Blindly, Faithful.

The Determined Scholar And The Man Of Virtue Will Not Seek To Live At The Expense Of Injuring Their Virtue. They Will Even Sacrifice Their Lives To Preserve Their Virtue Complete.

The Green Reed Which Bends In The Wind Is Stronger Than The Mighty Oak Which Breaks In A Storm.

Lead The People With Administrative Injunctions And Put Them In Their Place With Penal Law, And They Will Avoid Punishments But Will Be Without A Sense Of Shame. Lead Them With Excellence And Put Them In Their Place Through Roles And Ritual Practices, And In Addition To Developing A Sense Of Shame, They Will Order Themselves Harmoniously

There Is One Single Thread Binding My Way Together...the Way Of The Master Consists In Doing One's Best...that Is All.

A Man Exercising No Forethought Will Soon Experience Present Sorrow.

Every Piece Of Marble Has A Statue In It Waiting To Be Released By A Person Of Sufficient Skill To Chip Away The Unnecessary Parts. Just As The Sculptor Is To The Marble, So Is Education To The Soul. It Releases It. For Only Educated People Are Free People. You Cannot Create A Statue By Smashing The Marble With A Hammer, And You Cannot By The Force Of Arms Release The Spirit Or The Soul Of People.

The Superior Man Thinks Always Of Virtue; The Common Man Thinks Of Comfort.

Every Thoughtful Pin On Pinterest Has Beauty. But Not Everyone Can See.

The Great Mountain Must Collapse, The Mighty Beam Must Break And The Wise Man Wither Like A Plant.

Love Is Like A Spice. It Can Sweeten Your Life - However, It Can Spoil It, Too.

Faithfulness And Sincerity Are The Highest Things.

Care Not For Want Of Place; Care For Thy Readiness To Fill One. Care Not For Being Unknown, But Seek To Be Worthy Of Note.

He Who Is Harmony With Nature Hits The Mark Without Effort And Apprehends The Truth Without Thinking.

What The Great Learning Teaches, Is To Illustrate Illustrious Virtue; To Renovate The People; And To Rest In The Highest Excellence.

To Prefer It Is Better Than To Only Know It. To Delight In It Is Better Than Merely To Prefer It.

The Superior Man Is Universally Minded And No Partisan. The Inferior Man Is A Partisan And Not Universal.

He Who Is Really Kind, Can Never Be Unhappy

When It Is Obvious That The Goals Cannot Be Reached, Don't Adjust The Goals, Adjust The Action Steps.

It Is Better To Play Than Do Nothing.

The Man Of Noble Mind Seeks To Achieve The Good In Others And Not Their Evil. The Little-minded Man Is The Reverse Of This.

Justice Is Like The North Star, Which Is Fixed, And All The Rest Revolve About It.

The Great Man Is Sparing In Words But Prodigal In Deeds.

Study As Though You Cannot Catch Up To It, And As Though You Fear You Are Going To Lose It.

Even In Killing Men, Observe The Rules Of Propriety.

If You Did Not Do So For The Sake Of Riches,you Must Have Done So For The Sake Of Novelty.

A Happy Union With Wife And Child Is Like The Music Of Lutes And Harps.

Virtue Is Not Solitary; It Is Bound To Have Neighbors

If I Am Virtuous And Worthy, For Whom Should I Not Maintain A Proper Concern?

Be Faithful And True Of Word; Let Thy Walk Be Plain And Lowly: Thou Wilt Get On, Though In Savage Land. If Thy Words Be Not Faithful And True, Thy Walk Plain And Lowly, Wilt Thou Get On, Though In Thine Own Home? Standing, See These Words Ranged Before Thee; Driving, See Them Written Upon The Yoke. Then Thou Wilt Get On.

Cultivate The Root; The Leaves And Branches Will Take Care Of Themselves.

Real Knowledge Is To Know The Extent Of One's Ignorance.

He Who Remembers From Day To Day What He Has Yet To Learn, And From Month To Month What He Has Learned Already, May Be Said To Have A Love Of Learning.

When One Cultivates To The Utmost The Principles Of His Nature, And Exercises Them On The Principle Of Reciprocity, He Is Not Far From The Path.

A Wise Man Has Dignity Without Pride; A Fool Has Pride Without Dignity.

The Man Who Says He Can, And The Man Who Says He Can Not.. Are Both Correct

Silence Is The True Friend That Never Betrays.

Even Four Harnessed Horses Cannot Bring Imprudent Words Back Into The Mouth.

When Anger Rises, Think Of The Consequences.

Sincerity Is The End And Beginning Of Things; Without Sincerity There Would Be Nothing.

A Fool Despises Good Counsel, But A Wise Man Takes It To Heart.

She Who Is Born With Beauty Is Born With A Sorrow For Many A Man.

When A Man Comes To Me, I Accept Him At His Best, Not At His Worst. Why Make So Much Ado? When A Man Washes His Hands Before Paying A Visit, And You Receive Him In That Clean State, You Do Not Thereby Stand Surety For His Always Having Been Clean In The Past.

I Transmit But Do Not Create. I Place My Trust In The Teachings Of Antiquity.

If A Man Keeps Cherishing His Old Knowledge So As Continually To Be Acquiring New, He May Be A Teacher Of Others.

Kong Qiu, Or Master Kong As He Was Known, Did Not Live To See His Days Of Glory. During His Lifetime, His Views Were Received With Scorn. But That Was About Two Thousand Five Hundred Years Ago. A Handful Of His Dedicated Followers Passed On Confucius' Teachings To Future Generations. After Confucius' Death, His Followers Published His Teachings In The Book, The Analects Of Confucius.

Learn As Though You Would Never Be Able To Master It; Hold It As Though You Would Be In Fear Of Losing It.

Do Not Wish For Quick Results, Nor Look For Small Advantages. If You Seek Quick Results, You Will Not Reach The Ultimate Goal. If You Are Led Astray By Small Advantages, You Will Never Accomplish Great Things.

The Path Is Not Far From Man. When Men Try To Pursue A Course, Which Is Far From The Common Indications Of Consciousness, This Course Cannot Be Considered The Path.

Study As If You Have Not Reached Your Goal - Hold It As If You Were Afraid Of Losing What You Have.

A Superior Man Is One Who Is Free From Fear And Anxieties

The Superior Man, Extensively Studying All Learning, And Keeping Himself Under The Restraint Of The Rules Of Propriety, May Thus Likewise Not Overstep What Is Right.

If You Don't Want To Do Something,don't Impose On Others

When You Are Ignorant About Something, To Know That You Are Ignorant About It - That Is Knowledge.

I Used To Take On Trust A Man's Deeds After Having Listened To His Words. Now Having Listened To A Man's Words I Go On To Observe His Deeds.

The Way Of Heaven And Earth May Be Completely Declared In One Sentence: They Are Without Any Doubleness, And So They Produce Things In A Manner That Is Unfathomable.

Labor, But Slight Not Meditation; Meditate, But Slight Not Labor.

If You Reflect Within Yourself And Find Nothing To Be Ashamed Of, How Could You Have Anxiety Or Fear.

The Virtuous Will Be Sure To Speak Uprightly; But Those Whose Speech Is Upright May Not Be Virtuous.

The Father Who Does Not Teach His Son His Duties Is Equally Guilty With The Son Who Neglects Them.

It Is Not Possible For One To Teach Others Who Cannot Teach His Own Family.

In A Hamlet Of Ten Households, There Are Bound To Be Those Who Are My Equal In Doing Their Best For Others And In Being Trustworthy In What They Say, But They Are Unlikely To Be As Eager To Learn As I Am.

Those Who Know The Truth Are Not Equal To Those Who Love It.

The Master Was Entirely Free From Four Things: Prejudice, Foregone Conclusions, Obstinacy, And Egoism.

Grieve Not That Men Do Not Know You; Grieve That You Do Not Know Men.

To Know Your Faults And Be Able To Change Is The Greatest Virtue.

It Is Better Not To Proceed At All Than To Proceed Without Purpose.

It Is More Shameful To Distrust Our Friends Than To Be Deceived By Them.

Return Good For Good; Return Evil With Justice.

Among Us, In Our Part Of The Country, Those Who Are Upright Are Different From This. The Father Conceals The Misconduct Of The Son, And The Son Conceals The Misconduct Of The Father. Uprightness Is To Be Found In This.

The Ideal Teacher Guides His Students But Does Not Pull Them Along; He Urges Them To Go Forward And Does Not Suppress Them; He Opens The Way But Does Not Take Them To The Place.

Knowledge Without Practice Is Useless. Practice Without Knowledge Is Dangerous.

We Should Not Be Too Familiar With The Lower Orders Or With Women.

You Can Successfully Force People To Follow A Certain Course, But You Cannot Force Them To Understand It.

Give A Bowl Of Rice To A Man And You Will Feed Him For A Day. Teach Him How To Grow His Own Rice And You Will Save His Life.

Watch Their Actions, Observe Their Motives, Examine Wherein They Dwell Content; Won't You Know What Kind Of Person They Are?

The Superior Man Is Satisfied And Composed; The Mean Man Is Always Full Of Distress.

Gentlemen Cherish Worth; The Vulgar Cherish Dirt. Gentlemen Trust In Justice; The Vulgar Trust In Favor.

Speak The Truth, Do Not Yield To Anger; Give, If Thou Art Asked For Little; By These Three Steps Thou Wilt Go Near The Gods.

To Learn Without Thinking Is Labour In Vain, To Think Without Learning Is Desolation.

All Men Are Born Good.

The Noble-minded Are Calm And Steady. Little People Are Forever Fussing And Fretting.

There Is Nothing More Visible Than What Is Secret, And Nothing More Manifest Than What Is Minute.

If There Were An Honorable Way To Get Rich, I’d Do It, Even If It Meant Being A Stooge Standing Around With A Whip. But There Isn’t An Honorable Way, So I Just Do What I Like.

Things That Are Done, It Is Needless To Speak About...things That Are Past, It Is Needless To Blame.

Wealth And Rank Are What Men Desire, But Unless They Be Obtained In The Right Way They May Not Be Possessed. Poverty And Obscurity Are What Men Detest; But Unless Prosperity Be Brought About In The Right Way, They Are Not To Be Abandoned.

Be In Harmony, Yet Be Different.

One Hundred Women Are Not Worth A Single Testicle.

If You Would Govern A State Of A Thousand Chariots (a Small-to-middle-size State), You Must Pay Strict Attention To Business, Be True To Your Word, Be Economical In Expenditure And Love The People.

He Who Needs Only Coarse Food, Water And Drink, And As Pillow His Folded Arms Will Find Happiness Without Further Search.

Finding Happiness

A Man Of Wisdom Delights In Water.

Trending Author

Helen Frankenthaler

Sholom Aleichem

Category