Quotes By Xun Zi

Thus, anybody who follows this nature and gives way its states will be led into quarrels and conflicts, and go against the conventions and rules of society, and will end up a criminal.

Pride and excess bring disaster for man.

Since the nature of people is bad, to become corrected they must be taught by teachers and to be orderly they must acquire ritual and moral principles.

When you locate good in yourself, approve of it with determination. When you locate evil in yourself, despise it as something detestable.

I once tried standing up on my toes to see far out in the distance, but I found that I could see much farther by climbing to a high place.

Sacrifices are concerned with the feelings of devotion and longing.

In antiquity the sage kings recognized that men's nature is bad and that their tendencies were not being corrected and their lawlessness controlled.

Music is a fantastic peacekeeper of the world, it is integral to harmony, and it is a required fundamental of human emotion.