Hu Shih Quotes

Hu Shih — Chinese Philosopher born on December 17, 1891, died on February 24, 1962

Hu Shih was a Chinese philosopher, essayist and diplomat. Hu is widely recognized today as a key contributor to Chinese liberalism and language reform in his advocacy for the use of written vernacular Chinese. He was influential in the May Fourth Movement, one of the leaders of China's New Culture Movement, was a president of Peking University, and in 1939 was nominated for a Nobel Prize in literature. He had a wide range of interests such as literature, history, textual criticism, and pedagogy. He was also an influential redology scholar and held the famous Jiaxu manuscript for many years until his death... (wikipedia)

India Conquered and dominated China culturally for 20 centuries without ever having to send a single soldier across her border.

On the basis of biological, sociological, and historical knowledge, we should recognize that the individual self is subject to death or decay, but the sum total of individual achievement, for better or worse, lives on in the immortality of The Larger.

And revolutions always mean the breakdown of old authority.

Only when we realize that there is no eternal, unchanging truth or absolute truth can we arouse in ourselves a sense of intellectual responsibility.

After learning the language and culture of the Chinese people, these Jesuits began to establish contacts with the young intellectuals of the country.