Lu Jiuyuan Quotes

Lu Jiuyuan , or Lu Xiangshan , was a Chinese philosopher and writer who founded the school of the universal mind, the second most influential Neo-Confucian school. He was a contemporary and the main rival of Zhu Xi.

In East Asia and the Western World, he is known by his honorific name rather than his private name. Wikipedia  

✵ 26. March 1139 – 10. January 1193
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Lu Jiuyuan Quotes

“Even if the Heaven and Earth were destroyed, the Universal Reason would still be there.”

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As quoted in Lin Yutang's From Pagan to Christian (1959), p. 107, and in George E. G. Catlin's Rabindranath Tagore (1964), p. 17

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