If Confucius wasn't born, the long night would have no bright lamp.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Confucius, who was born in the sixth century B.C., traditionally had a stature in China akin to that of Socrates in the West.
Confucius was a humanist and an agnostic.
Dark can't exist with the light. Ain't nothing dark about God.
The world at night, for much of history, was a very dark place indeed.
People who light up like Roman candles come down in the dark very quickly.
The wise become as the unwise in the enchanted chambers of Power, whose lamps make every face the same colour.
Genius without religion is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace; it may serve to cast a gleam of light on those that are without, while the inhabitant sits in darkness.
I was born to a Likud which had light; there were no shadows.
I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more.