Top 2 Quotes & Sayings by Zhang Zai

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Chinese philosopher Zhang Zai.

Last updated on April 21, 2025.

Zhang Zai (1020–1077) was a Chinese philosopher and politician. He is most known for laying out four ontological goals for intellectuals: to build up the manifestations of Heaven and Earth's spirit, to build up good life for the populace, to develop past sages' endangered scholarship, and to open up eternal peace.

Chinese - Philosopher | 1020 - 1077

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Wealth and honor, benefits and blessings shall enrich my life; poverty and failures, grief and anxiety shall help fulfill it. In my life, I will serve heaven and earth; in death I will find peace.

Zhang Zai

In everything that moves through the universe, I see my own body, and in everything that governs the universe, my own soul. All men are my brethren, and all things my companions.

Zhang Zai

Top 2 Quotes & Sayings by Zhang Zai

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