#WangFuzhi

“He watched his civilization die, fought for its ghost, then hid for forty years in the hills writing over a hundred books almost nobody read for a century and a half — and when China finally opened them, it found the most modern mind of its old world.”

“There is no realm of pure principle floating above the world. Reality is qi — matter-energy in ceaseless transformation — and pattern, history, and even human nature exist only inside its flow, which never runs backward.”