Richard Wilhelm Professions : Translator Born : May 10, 1873 Died : March 2, 1930 Browse All Authors Top 4 quotes by Richard Wilhelm There is a saying in China that the nature of man is found there, in the center, where emotions are not yet manifest. In this center is the potentiality of everything to come. Richard Wilhelm emotion found men We now should be able to see cosmos and individual joined in a relationship. We should see that macrocosm and microcosm are, as it were, only far-flung parts of one unified energy center. Richard Wilhelm cosmos able energy If intellect and will are correctly centered, the emotional life takes on harmony. Richard Wilhelm intellect harmony emotional All of Chinese thinking - Confucianism, Taoism, as well as Buddhism - contains the idea that in the course of life, man will shape harmoniously those psychic and physical predispositions that he received as capital assets by unifying them and giving them form from within a center. Richard Wilhelm buddhism men thinking Similar Authors Burton Watson translator Burton Raffel translator Ase-Marie Nesse translator Arthur Waley translator David Bellos translator Denys Johnson-Davies translator All Authors
