#chin

I love watching people's dreams come true. ↗

— Jessica Simpson

#dreams #i #i love #love #people

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

— Hu Shih

#border #centuries #china #conquered #culturally

Practically all the prominent leaders of thought in China today are openly agnostics and even atheists. ↗

— Hu Shih

#atheists #china #even #leaders #openly

Another important historical factor is the fact that this already very simple religion was further simplified and purified by the early philosophers of ancient China. Our first great philosopher was a founder of naturalism; and our second great philosopher was an agnostic. ↗

— Hu Shih

#already #ancient #another #china #early

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. ↗

— Hu Shih

#brought #changes #china #chinese #chinese people

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. ↗

— Hu Shih

#cornell #incidents #language #led #question

It is true that the Chinese are not so religious as the Hindus, or even as the Japanese; and they are certainly not so religious as the Christian missionaries desire them to be. ↗

— Hu Shih

#chinese #christian #desire #even #hindus

Life and human society are the chief concern of Confucianism and, through it, the chief concern of the Chinese people. ↗

— Hu Shih

#chief concern #chinese #chinese people #concern #confucianism

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. ↗

— Hu Shih

#europe #even #experience #history #incapable

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. ↗

— Hu Shih

#chinese #christian #convince #could #culture