Thorsten J. Pattberg Quotes

“Revive Asian words and promote important key concepts!”

“The time is ripe for Chinese thought as a global quest for cultural pluralism.”

“The vocabularies in the world add up, they do not overlap. Translation is something else.”

“Not a single Buddha, bodhisattva, or shengren in Europe, but in Asia: all philosophers and saints? What is that probability?”

“Any sage can do philosophy, but not every philosopher is a sage.”

“As a rule, for any society that is single-mindedly interested in its own promotion and thus survival, it would have to have a h uge population and it would have to send its people out, not letting too many others in.”

“Chinese holiday names are not dead yet, although I would hardly call them alive either: they are truly undead vocabularies.”