Syllabus

UNIVERSITY OF ST. FRANCIS
 

Philosophy, Religion, and History of China

      May 28—June 12, 2005

Thought for the Week

  
 

                        Thinker

Thought for the week

 

 

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People with virtue must speak out;
People who speak are not all virtuous. Confucius

 

                                                                        March 4th

Respect the gods and the devils but keep them at a distance. Confucius Lunyu


                                                         February 12th

Running a large country is like cooking a small fish. Lao Zi

 

                                                         February 5th

                                                         

 

                                                          January 29th

                                                                        

Like weather, one's fortune may change by the evening.


 

                                                           January 22nd                                                                        

Running a large country is like cooking a small fish.

-Lao Zi


January 15th

  • "Black cat or white cat: If it can catch mice, it's a good cat."  -Deng Xiaoping
 

                                                           January 8th

Help one another, for we are all in the same boat.

 

January 1st

"To learn without thinking is fruitless;
To think without learning is dangerous." 
                                                             Confucius

 


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Under an overturned nest, can there be unbroken eggs?

 

Everyone eats and drinks; yet only few appreciate the taste of food.

Doctrine of Mean, 4.2 by Confucius

 

To worry before the common people worries;
To enjoy only after the people can enjoy.

Yueyanglou by Fan Zhongyan

 

 

 

Love at First Sight
Yi Jian Zhong Qing

 

What you do not wish upon yourself,
extend not to others.

Analect ( Lun Yu ) - Confucius 15:24 and 12:5

 

Never seek illicit wealth

Book of Rites ( Liji ) - Confucius

 

Never hesitate to ask a lesser person.

Confucius

 

 

"Past scholars studied to improve themselves;
Today's scholars study to impress others."

Confucius

 

If you know, to recognize that you know,
If you don't know, to realize that you don't know:
That is knowledge.

 

Confucius

True knowledge is when one knows the limitations of one's knowledge.

 

He who depends on himself will attain the the greatest happiness

 

Book of Odes

 

Respect the gods and the devils
but keep them at a distance

 

6-22

 

Justice for All in the World

Confucius

 

The Master said:
  "In learning and straightway practising is there not pleasure also?
   When friends gather round from afar do we not rejoice?
   Whom lack of fame cannot vex is not he a gentleman?"

-Chap.1, LunYu 
Confucius 

 

With strength to lift mountains and spirit to take on the World

Xiang Yu

 

Every tree and every blade of grass appears to be enemy soldiers.

story

 

Make My Home Everywhere within the Four Seas
The World Is My Home
(The World is My Oyster)

Xiao He to the Emperor (Han Dynasty)

 

Life is finite,
While knowledge is infinite.

 

Zhuang Zi

 

Since the dawn of time every one will die,
Let the history books note my death with loyalty at heart.

 

Wen Tianxiang

 

All men are brothers

 

Rise and fall of a nation rests with every one of its citizens

 

Old Horse Knows the Way

 

- Story by Han Fei Zi 
 

 

Like burying one's head in the sand

- Story  
 

 

Without going outside, you may know the whole world!

-Chap. 47, DaoDeJing 
Lao Zi [Lao Tze] 

 

Every child born, has innate goodness.

-Line 1, Three Word Essay 
 

 

"The sky is falling!", so worries the man from Ji

- Story by LieZi 
 

 

Mencius' Mother Moves Her Home Three Times
to better her son's education

 

Can do!

 

 

Let's put our heads together for the benefit of all

 

 

Live in peace tho' living away from home

 

 

Seeing it once is better than being told 100 times.
bai wen bu ru yi jian

 

Ref. - Zhou Chongguo, Han Dynasty

or,
A picture is worth ten thousand words

By Fred Barnard (American), March 10,1927,
and often mis-quoted as
an old Chinese proverb.

 

Set the goal too high and off!

 

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