Quotes from Thorsten J. Pattberg

The wisdom of the East is immortalized in its vocabularies and must be liberated from European language imperialism once and for all.

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.

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 huge population and it would have to send its people out, not letting too many others in.

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

Calling Confucius a philosopher is the wrong classification. Like calling a whale a fish.

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

Division turned out to be humanity's strength, togetherness its arms.

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

Harvard has de facto become a Chinese outpost.

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

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

Star Wars is Chinese Taoism.

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

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

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

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.

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

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