Thorsten Pattberg Quotes

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

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

The cultural and economic penalty for not recognizing East-Asian talent is immense.

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

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

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

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

Communism and capitalism were made for scale and the masses, and scale and the masses are now in Asia.

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

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

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

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

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

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