Confucius Was A Humanist And An Agnostic.

The Knowledge That Mankind Needs Is Not The Way Or Principle Which Has An Absolute Existence, But The Particular Truths For Here And Now And For Particular Individuals. Absolute Truth Is Imaginary, Abstract, Vague, Without Evidence, And Cannot Be Demonstrated.

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.

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.

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 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.