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.
Only when we realize that there is no eternal, unchanging truth or absolute truth can we arouse in ourselves a sense of intellectual responsibility. - Hu Shih
Only when we realize that there is no eternal, unchanging truth or absolute truth can we arouse in ourselves a sense of intellectual responsibility.
- Hu Shih
And lastly, the political revolutions from 1911 to the present time have done more to bring about tremendous social changes everywhere than even the … - Hu Shih
And lastly, the political revolutions from 1911 to the present time have done more to bring about tremendous social changes everywhere than even the …
Within my own life, I read all the beloved novels by lamps of vegetable oil; I saw the Standard Oil invading my own village, I saw gas lamps in the C… - Hu Shih
Within my own life, I read all the beloved novels by lamps of vegetable oil; I saw the Standard Oil invading my own village, I saw gas lamps in the C…
The underlying sickness of human life is an unwillingness to look with open eyes at the condition of the world. - Hu Shih
The underlying sickness of human life is an unwillingness to look with open eyes at the condition of the world.
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 … - Hu Shih
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 …
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 intellige… - Hu Shih
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 intellige…
India Conquered and dominated China culturally for 20 centuries without ever having to send a single soldier across her border. - Hu Shih
India Conquered and dominated China culturally for 20 centuries without ever having to send a single soldier across her border.
Confucius was a humanist and an agnostic. - Hu Shih
Confucius was a humanist and an agnostic.
It is only through contact and comparison that the relative value or worthlessness of the various cultural elements can be clearly and critically see… - Hu Shih
It is only through contact and comparison that the relative value or worthlessness of the various cultural elements can be clearly and critically see…
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