Hu Shih

India Conquered and dominated China culturally for 20 centuries without ever having to send a single soldier across her border. ↗

— Hu Shih

#border #centuries #china #conquered #culturally

In such diffused changes of culture two factors are necessary: contact and understanding. ↗

— Hu Shih

#contact #culture #diffused #factors #necessary

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

#absolute truth #arouse #eternal #intellectual #only

Practically all the prominent leaders of thought in China today are openly agnostics and even atheists. ↗

— Hu Shih

#atheists #china #even #leaders #openly

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

#began #chinese #chinese people #contacts #country

And revolutions always mean the breakdown of old authority. ↗

— Hu Shih

#authority #breakdown #mean #old #revolutions

But I wish to point out that it is entirely wrong to say that the Chinese are not religious. ↗

— Hu Shih

#entirely #i #i wish #out #point

Confucius was a humanist and an agnostic. ↗

— Hu Shih

#confucius #humanist

Historically, there had been many periods of Chinese Renaissance. ↗

— Hu Shih

#chinese #had #historically #many #periods

In the year 1915 a series of trivial incidents led some Chinese students in Cornell University to take up the question of reforming the Chinese language. ↗

— Hu Shih

#cornell #incidents #language #led #question