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Tu Weiming Quotes on Virtue

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. This page collects quotes attributed to Tu Weiming on the topic of virtue, drawn from across the philosopher's works.

Quotes

  • Attributed to Tu Weiming:

    “Self-cultivation is the ground from which all genuine social life rises.”

  • Attributed to Tu Weiming:

    “A person is fully human only when their humanity has been polished by relations with others.”

  • Attributed to Tu Weiming:

    “Confucianism is not a religion among others; it is a way of being human that other religions may inhabit.”

  • Attributed to Tu Weiming:

    “Centrality and commonality are the twin names of the Confucian path.”