Quotes by Confucius
551 BCE – 479 BCE
Confucius is China’s most famous teacher, philosopher, and political theorist. In a time of great political upheaval, he sought an intellectual basis for a stable political and social order which he believed lay with a ruler who would rule with wisdom and virtue and would be opposed to force and violence.
Bio
For additional information about Confucius see the following:
- in the Forum: the Goodrich Seminar Room entry on Confucius
Literature & Music
Confucius edited this collection of poems which contains a poem about “Yellow Birds” who ravenously eat the crops of the local people, thus alienating them completely (520 BC)
Philosophy
Confucius on Prudence and the Superior Man