List of Hu Shih Quotes

Historically, There Had Been Many Periods Of Chinese Renaissance.

Grasp The Opportunity With Both Hands To Feel Really Very Special As An Indian Reading These Quotes On The Indian Independence Day. A Number Of Famous And Reputed Persons Have Thrown Some Light On The Chapter Of Indian Independence. India Conquered And Dominated China Culturally For 20 Centuries Without Ever Having To Send A Single Soldier Across Her Border!"

For All The Social Changes In China Can Be Traced To Their Early Beginnings In The Days When The New Tools Or Vehicles Of Commerce And Locomotion First Brought The Chinese People Into Unavoidable Contact With The Strange Ways And Novel Goods Of The Western Peoples.

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.

In The Year 1915 A Series Of Trivial Incidents Led Some Chinese Students In Cornell University To Take Up The Question Of Reforming The Chinese Language.

But I Wish To Point Out That It Is Entirely Wrong To Say That The Chinese Are Not Religious.

On July 26, 1916, I Announced To All My Friends In America That From Now On I Resolved To Write No More Poems In The Classical Language, And To Begin My Experiments In Writing Poetry In The So-called Vulgar Tongue Of The People.

And Lastly, The Political Revolutions From 1911 To The Present Time Have Done More To Bring About Tremendous Social Changes Everywhere Than Even The Economic And Industrial Changes And The New Schools.

The Rise Of The Dramas In The Thirteenth Century, And The Rise Of The Great Novels In A Later Period, Together With Their Frank Glorification Of Love And The Joys Of Life, May Be Called The Third Renaissance.

And Revolutions Always Mean The Breakdown Of Old Authority.

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.

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