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Mou Zongsan Quotes on Truth

Mou Zongsan was a Chinese philosopher and one of the principal representatives of the New Confucian movement of the twentieth century. This page collects quotes attributed to Mou Zongsan on the topic of truth, drawn from across the philosopher's works.

Quotes

  • Attributed to Mou Zongsan:

    “Confucianism is, in its deepest sense, a moral religion.”

  • Attributed to Mou Zongsan:

    “The moral subject is the foundation of Chinese philosophy.”

  • Attributed to Mou Zongsan:

    “There is a two-level ontology: the phenomenal and the noumenal, both accessible to the moral subject.”

  • Attributed to Mou Zongsan:

    “Without intellectual intuition there can be no Chinese philosophy.”