Example sentences for: confucius

How can you use “confucius” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • It is precisely here that Confucius observed that the world is small and that Chairman Mao proclaimed “the East is Red.”

  • Across the street and down a narrow street from the Lama Temple is Beijing’s most serene place of worship, the Temple of Confucius (Kongzimiao), with statues and stone tablets honoring the ancient sage.

  • It was only after the death of Chairman Mao (1976) and the opening of China to the outside world under more progressive reformers that Confucius, too, was “rehabilitated.”

  • The classics of Confucius, while seldom addressing spiritual and metaphysical matters, set standards for social and political conduct that still underlie many of the Chinese ways of doing and perceiving.

  • In the rest of the world, China’s supreme sage, Kongfuzi (K’ung Fu-tzu), is better known by the romanized name “Confucius.”


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