Associations to the word «Confucius»

Wiktionary

CONFUCIUS, proper noun. Western name of Kong Qiu (孔丘), an influential Chinese philosopher who lived 551 BCE – 479 BCE.
CONFUCIUS, proper noun. (very rare) A male given name.

Dictionary definition

CONFUCIUS, noun. Chinese philosopher whose ideas and sayings were collected after his death and became the basis of a philosophical doctrine known a Confucianism (circa 551-478 BC).

Wise words

Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.
Aldous Huxley