Logo
Quote by Hu Shih
What is sacred among one people may be ridiculous in another and w

What is sacred among one people may be ridiculous in another and what is despised or rejected by one cultural group, may in a different environment become the cornerstone for a great edifice of strange grandeur and beauty. – Hu Shih

Other quotes by Hu Shih

After learning the language and culture of the Chinese people, these Jesuits began to establish contacts with the young intellectuals of the country. – Hu Shih

Category:
Learning
Author
Hu Shih
Read Quote

No student of Chinese history can say that the Chinese are incapable of religious experience, even when judged by the standards of medieval Europe or pious India. – Hu Shih

Category:
Experience
Author
Hu Shih
Read Quote

Only when we realize that there is no eternal, unchanging truth or absolute truth can we arouse in ourselves a sense of intellectual responsibility. – Hu Shih

Category:
Truth
Author
Hu Shih
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Beauty
category

Liturgy is like a strong tree whose beauty is derived from the continuous renewal of its leaves, but whose strength comes from the old trunk, with solid roots in the ground. – Pope Paul VI

Category:
Beauty

Beauty?… To me it is a word without sense because I do not know where its meaning comes from nor where it leads to. – Pablo Picasso

Category:
Beauty

Sometimes the beauty is easy. Sometimes you dont have to try at all. Sometimes you can hear the wind blow in a handshake. Sometimes theres poetry written right on the bathroom wall. – Ani DiFranco

Category:
Beauty

Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty? – Paul Gauguin

Category:
Beauty

Random Quotes

Science is not a game in which arbitrary rules are used to decide what explanations are to be permitted. – Michael Behe

Category:
Science

Dad almost died of a heart attack in the middle of making Apocalypse Now, the biggest movie of his life. It doesnt make you want to jump into that business. – Charlie Sheen

Category:
Business

In their poverty, the mentally handicapped reveal God to us and hold us close to the gospel. – Henri Nouwen

Category:
God

Let us put theology out of religion. Theology has always sent the worst to heaven, the best to hell. – Robert Green Ingersoll

Category:
best