Top 4 Quotes & Sayings by Richard Wilhelm

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a translator Richard Wilhelm.
Last updated on November 21, 2024.
Richard Wilhelm
Richard Wilhelm
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May 10, 1873 - March 2, 1930
There is a saying in China that the nature of man is found there, in the center, where emotions are not yet manifest. In this center is the potentiality of everything to come. — © Richard Wilhelm
There is a saying in China that the nature of man is found there, in the center, where emotions are not yet manifest. In this center is the potentiality of everything to come.
We now should be able to see cosmos and individual joined in a relationship. We should see that macrocosm and microcosm are, as it were, only far-flung parts of one unified energy center.
If intellect and will are correctly centered, the emotional life takes on harmony.
All of Chinese thinking - Confucianism, Taoism, as well as Buddhism - contains the idea that in the course of life, man will shape harmoniously those psychic and physical predispositions that he received as capital assets by unifying them and giving them form from within a center.
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