Brain Fodder from Confucius
Hey all. I’ve been reading some Confucian writings and I thought I’d share some thoughts I found particularly interesting. I do suggest reading them. Stopping and thinking about these can be quite rewarding.
- Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.
- Have no friends not equal to yourself.
- When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them.
- The accomplished scholar is not a utensil.
- To see what is right and not to do it is want of courage.
- The mind of the superior man (Chun-Tsze) is conversant with righteousness; the mind of the mean man is conversant with gain.
- Chi Wan thought thrice, and then acted. When the Master was informed of it, he said, “Twice may do.”
