Confucian Classic Lover Gifts

Wang Yangming listens.

'He who laughs last probably doesn't get it.'

"Smile when you say that, pardner."

"It's a long way to Enlightenment. You might need some cash."

"Hey! If you're here to marvel at the smallness of your existence within a glorious, vast and unknowable universe, there's a line!"

Eurydice is bitten by a snake

Primitive magician

Archimedes helps Sisyphus

"Can you juggle a household, three kids, and a career?"

'Why can't we just kick Caesar upstairs?'

Corporate departments as a metaphor for growing up.

"Moulting"

"All a cat CAN do is strive for authenticity."

"Hello - I'm from the future..."

Scurile travels

“Just one question...how on earth do I get down?!?”

'Isn't that wonderful? We both suffer from intellectual angst!'

"I'm searching for a happy medium between sitting on a mountain top and eating cheese fries."

"Today's sermon will be followed immediately by a rebuttal from the opposition."

'I'm worried about this new brain of scarecrows...'

"I'm not really into organized religion, though I am very spiritual."

'Have you been working out?'

'The Meaning of Life? -- you don't have a bad ticker, do you?'

Professor McWit, crushed by an avalanche of Philosophy 101 texts, proves again that a little knowledge is a dangerous thing.

"I'm sorry, sir, but Dostoyevsky is not considered summer reading. I'll have to ask you to come with me."

"I'm taking you off sleeping pills and putting you on Proust."

The sad case of the blind-men and the elephant.

"Look, you asked me what my favorite book was and it just happens to be A Farewell to Arms."

Seneca

"Can any of us truly see ourselves?"