Tu Weiming Quotes
Tu Weiming is a Chinese-American philosopher, professor at Peking University and emeritus professor at Harvard, and the most influential exponent of New Confucianism in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Centrality and Commonality and Confucian Thought: Selfhood as Creative Transformation reread the Confucian tradition as a humanism of self-cultivation in which the individual realizes itself only by joining itself to family, community, and cosmos through ongoing ritual practice. The quotes below are attributed to Tu Weiming, organized by topic.
Tu Weiming on God
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Attributed to Tu Weiming:
“Confucianism is not a religion among others; it is a way of being human that other religions may inhabit.”
Tu Weiming on Love
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Attributed to Tu Weiming:
“A person is fully human only when their humanity has been polished by relations with others.”
Tu Weiming on Mind
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Attributed to Tu Weiming:
“The self in Confucian thought is not a private possession but a center for the realization of relationships.”
Tu Weiming on Virtue
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Attributed to Tu Weiming:
“Self-cultivation is the ground from which all genuine social life rises.”
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Attributed to Tu Weiming:
“Centrality and commonality are the twin names of the Confucian path.”