Word: confucius
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...divinity and Christianity of its divine mission, but concede that Christianity contains certain "basic" ethical truths. The result: "A Christ who would never have inspired the martyrs ... a Christ who would be quite happy in a pantheon, His image tolerantly rubbing shoulders with those of Buddha and Confucius, Mahomet and perhaps Gandhi...
NOVELIST PEARL BUCK: "I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in human beings. Like Confucius of old, I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and the angels...
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...Christ. Mende continued: "In all the great religious doctrines, the men who created them-Christ, Mohammed, Buddha and Confucius-worked for a popular human idea. They could not help that the doctrines they preached without personal ambitions came to be known by their names . . ." Mende warned the leaders to get their guidance from on high and to beware of "pseudo doctrinaires," who try to fashion their own Peronism. "The thoughts of General Perón and the thoughts of Madam Eva Perón, these can be ascertained instantly, because we have all their speeches from 1943 to date, duly...
Director vonSternberg keeps interest and excitement high throughout the picture, however, by an old, Confucius-like beggar, who masters the minor fault of being totally blind by telling all the characters what the rest are doing at any given moment. The audience sits, fascinated to the end, wondering how he did it. But with a shrewd twist, in which the director daringly departed from formula six, the movie never explains this feat, thus keeping the audience in suspense even after the lights...