30 quotes
The cognitive preeminence of East-Asians in several intellectual and artistic disciplines is fascinating and terrifying to look at.
The East-West Dichotomy (2009)
The East is more inductive, while the West is more deductive.
The East-West Dichotomy (2009)
Calling Confucius a philosopher is the wrong classification. Like calling a whale a fish.
Shengren (2011)
Not a single Buddha, bodhisattva, or shengren in Europe, but in Asia: all philosophers and saints? What is that probability?
Shengren (2011)
Honesty and facts are almost irrelevant. Getting attention is key, causing offence is desirable, and provoking a physical response is the jackpot.
Essays (2013)
The shengren is above philosophy and beyond religion. He is decisively not European. This will be read in a thousand years.
Shengren (2011)
The English language is often hailed as the "international language", but it is not the global language. In fact, the global language will have to adopt tens of thousands of non-European terminologies.
Knowledge is a Polyglot (2019)
The smallest leaves and twigs will bend and break... If our criteria was 'longevity', however, we would be safest to bet on the two great branches of World History, the East and the West.
The East-West Dichotomy (2009)
Hey, China, You look like one of us. Look what we've made you!
The East-West Dichotomy (2009)
As a rule, for any society that is single-mindedly interested in its own promotion and thus survival, it would have to have a h uge population and it would have to send its people out, not letting too many others in.
The East-West Dichotomy (2009)