"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."

"Western nations act as if they 'own' the globe, history, and all material objects."

"The cognitive preeminence of East-Asians in several intellectual and artistic disciplines is fascinating and terrifying to look at."

"There is nothing paradox about Confucius. He is a shengren."

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

"China is not only a sage culture, but a living sage culture."

"The shengren is above philosophy and beyond religion. He is decisively not European. This will be read in a thousand years."

"Hey, China, You look like one of us. Look what we've made you!"

"The shengren is the single most important concept in Chinese history."

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

"Where can I find a Holy Man?"

"Honesty and facts are almost irrelevant. Getting attention is key, causing offence is desirable, and provoking a physical response is the jackpot."

"Ape Caesar is a universal leader, regardless of origin; he is willing to lead his species and shape the world, and subjugate it, if need be. He points to the future. Sun Wukong guards his people and their traditions. He looks back at their glorious past. --Films vis-a-vis nations' global role (2014), China Daily, Hong Kong"

"A Greek invention, democracy is highly overrated. For starters, it never worked in Greece. The first philosophers were fascists and, even today, 2,500 years later, the 'cradle of Western civilization' remains an incompetent state. Roman emperors and a vengeful, authoritarian God are the true European success stories."

"The English language is often hailed as the "international language", but it is not the global language. In fact, the global language will have to adopt tens of thousands of non-European terminologies."

"We must begin to find the untranslatables in each culture and return them to world history."

"The US, Germany, France and Britain were never real democracies. Far from it, the US is a plutocracy with a post-monarchal king's court (the White House) and a holy scripture (the constitution). The three others are tedious class societies."

"Of all the cultures that have disappeared from the world, not a single farewell letter or suicide note has been unearthed."

"The smallest leaves and twigs will bend and break... If our criteria was 'longevity', however, we would be safest to bet on the two great branches of World History, the East and the West."

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

"Few people realize that the Bible discourages people from studying foreign languages."

"The Chinese dragon 'long' is essentially a force of the good."

"Sadly, a biblical sense of mission perverts all Western societies. There isn't a town square in Europe without a church. Priests are trained in national universities. The ruling party of Germany is the Christian Democratic Union. America is God's favorite nation. And we all live in the year 2019 of our Lord, Jesus Christ. -- Chinese are not so foolish as to worship at the church of Western values (2015), South China Morning Post, Hong Kong"

"The East is more inductive, while the West is more deductive."

"Let us build the fairest construction the world has ever seen - the global language."

"Harvard has de facto become a Chinese outpost. -- Oh, boy, do the Chinese love Harvard! (2014), China Daily, Beijing"

"Asia is the unifying one, while the West is the destructive other."

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

"Just like in Europe in the feudal days, the typical Chinese public servant today drags himself around with little or no money, and thus stays close to his master. In the past, that was the emperor, now it is the party. Can China's new government end corruption? (2013), The Japan Times, Tokyo"

"Revive Asian words and promote important key concepts!"

"Yes, I am vulgar and fearless, and loudly indifferent to convention and limitation."

"Division turned out to be humanity's strength, togetherness its arms. -- Reassure HK, remind Britain SAR no longer a British 'colony' (2019), China Daily, Beijing"

"Capitalism forces nations to compete for market shares, natural resources, and human capital. Less obvious so, they also compete for names, brands, and terminologies."

"The West is the ultimate status upgrade to them [the Chinese]. -- The perils of being associated with China (2014), The Korea Times, Seoul"

"Star Wars is Chinese Taoism. -- Star Wars is Taoism in American garb (2015), China Daily, Beijing"

"Since an algebraic function w(z) is defined implicitly by an equation of the form f(z,w) = 0, where f is a polynomial, it is understandable that the study of such functions should be possible by algebraic methods. Such methods also have the advantage that the theory can be developed in the most general setting, viz. over an arbitrary field, and not only over the field of complex numbers (the classical case)."

"... H. Hasse perceived the connection between complex multiplication and the Riemann hypothesis for congruence zeta functions, which was later proved by A. Weil in a fully general form. This observation led M. Deuring to establish a purely algebraic treatment of complex multiplication of elliptic curves. He could, moreover, along the same line of ideas, determine the zeta functions of elliptic curves with complex multiplication. The definition of zeta function of an algebraic curve defined over an algebraic number field is originally due to Hasse; and Weil is the first contributor to this subject."

"...the tomb of Jesus was not empty but full, and his body did not disappear but rotted away."

"The combination of interest in physics and in philosophy was uncommon in the United States, and physicists who deviated from the narrow path were looked down upon by their colleagues. Philosophy of physics was definitely regarded as an aberrant, evasive sort of discipline, practiced by physicists who 'could not make it' in their straight profession and, in somewhat greater numbers, by philosophers whose knowledge of physics was inadequate."

"Philosophy shows itself to be alive when it raises, again and again, the deep concerns that plague man's reason; it dies when it presumes to have resolved them with finality. Determinism and freedom in their conjunction pose one of the eternal questions ..."

"... during the last two decades, there has been introduced into physical methodology a principle of utmost philosophical importance, easily rivaling that of relativity, and, in some respects, indeed that of causality. Discovered by Pauli in 1925, it immediately elucidate a whole realm of physical facts and was accepted by physicists with wide acclaim. Called the exclusion principle—or Pauli principle, or principle of anti-symmetry—it was embodied in the axiomatics of quantum mechanics; its pecular methodological significance passed out of view."

"National Socialism could not be deduced exclusively from a reaction to the Bolshevik movement, that on the contrary there existed, even before the war, a brutal German nationalism, and that explicit intentions of extermination of the Jews were even expressed in the program of one party."

"Actually, there are obviously profound reason why what appears banal from a certain point of view meets with so much resistance in the case we are concerned with. The long held conviction that Marxist socialism and even Leninist Bolshevism were absolutely different from fascism and totally opposed to it must be mentioned first. Of course, today ‘Stalinism’ has been abandoned everywhere, but the old conviction remains in diverse versions and in diverse watered down forms, from reformed communists to well into the liberal camp."

"I am still sometimes surprised by the contemporary Left’s show of aggressivity, and I can’t even think about it without finding something ridiculous in it. It is really so difficult to note that an internal necessity pushes us toward the historico-genetic conception of the theory of totalitarianism if we subscribe to the basic points of the Marxist interpretation of the twentieth century without accepting the claim of Marxism, and thus of communism, of having the market on absolute truth?"

"Professor Nolte, a respected scholar of fascism, provoked an ideological uproar in 1986 by suggesting in an essay that Nazisim had been a logical response in Germany to an ‘existential threat’ posed by the Russian Revolution and its aftermath. He also argued that Hitler’s extermination of Jews and other minorities was comparable to the mass murders engineered by Stalin in the Soviet Union, where victims were singled out by economic and social class as enemies of the Communist state."

"The theory of totalitarianism certainly provided a way out in offering a distinction between ‘democratic’ anticommunism and ‘totalitarian’ anticommunism, but it did not prevail for long, and following this, from Right to Left, from press to university, all spokespersons agreed to concentrate on the examination of National Socialism and to focus on ‘Stalinism’ only in passing, without speaking of a ‘world communist movement’ at all."