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Nakae Tōju Quotes

1608–1648 Japan

Nakae Tōju (中江藤樹, 21 April 1608 – 11 October 1648) was a Japanese Confucian philosopher known as "the sage of Ōmi".

Japan
Philosophers

Also known as: Nakaye Toju

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“I had for many years been a devout believer in Shushi says Nakaye Toju (1608-48), “when, by the mercy of Heaven, the collected works of Oyomei were brought for the first time to Japan. Had it not been for the aid of their teaching, my life would have been empty and barren.”

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Nakae Tōju (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.