Confucius/philosophy

Famous quotes containing the words confucius and/or philosophy:

“A township where one primitive forest waves above while another primitive forest rots below,—such a town is fitted to raise not only corn and potatoes, but poets and philosophers for the coming ages. In such a soil grew Homer and Confucius and the rest, and out of such a wilderness comes the Reformer eating locusts and wild honey.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“If this is philosophy it is at any rate a philosophy that is not in its right mind.”
—G.C. (Georg Christoph)