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Quotes from Shengren — Thorsten J. Pattberg

b. 1977 Germany

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Any sage can do philosophy, but not every philosopher is a sage.

Shengren (2011)

Every culture is unique, none is universal.

Shengren (2011)

The shengren is the single most important concept in Chinese history.

Shengren (2011)

China is not only a sage culture, but a living sage culture.

Shengren (2011)

The vocabularies in the world add up, they do not overlap. Translation is something else.

Shengren (2011)

There is nothing paradox about Confucius. He is a shengren.

Shengren (2011)

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?

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The shengren is above philosophy and beyond religion. He is decisively not European. This will be read in a thousand years.

Shengren (2011)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Thorsten J. Pattberg (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.