What Is Sacred Among One People May

No Student Of Chinese History Can Say That The Chinese Are Incapable Of Religious Experience, Even When Judged By The Standards Of Medieval Europe Or Pious India.

What Is Sacred Among One People May Be Ridiculous In Another; And What Is Despised Or Rejected By One Cultural Group, May In A Different Environment Become The Cornerstone For A Great Edifice Of Strange Grandeur And Beauty.

Practically All The Prominent Leaders Of Thought In China Today Are Openly Agnostics And Even Atheists.

The Most Outstanding Characteristic Of Eastern Civilization Is To Know Contentment, Whereas That Of Western Civilization Is Not To Know Contentment. Contented Easterners Are Satisfied With Their Simple Life And Therefore Do Not Seek To Increase Their Material Enjoyment... They Are Satisfied With Their Present Lot And Environment And Therefore Do Not Want To Conquer Nature But Merely Be At Home With Nature And At Peace With Their Lot.

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.