Q0175

Liang Qichao

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English

The two sayings I have found most useful in life are these: responsibility, and delight.… What I speak of today as respect for one's work is responsibility; delight in one's work is interest. I deeply believe that a reasonable human life should be like this.
Thinker Liang Qichao
School Modern Enlightenment Thought
Source Respect for Work and Delight in Work (1922)
Theme Responsibility
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Source context

This English passage is associated with Respect for Work and Delight in Work (1922), within the tradition of Modern Enlightenment Thought. The wording below is a verified rendering prepared for careful reading rather than a claim of unique translation authority.

A short reading

Read in the register of responsibility, the sentence asks the reader to test an assumption rather than to collect a slogan. In Liang Qichao's wider work, similar claims are usually offered as prompts for judgment: what would have to be true for the sentence to hold, and what would follow if it did?

How to cite this quotation

APA: Liang Qichao. (n.d.). The two sayings I have found most useful in life are these: responsibility, and delight.… What I speak of today as respect for one's work is responsibility; delight in one's work is interest. I deeply believe that a reasonable human life should be like this. In Philosophy Blind Box. https://www.philosophydef.com/quotes/q0175

MLA: Liang Qichao. “The two sayings I have found most useful….” Philosophy Blind Box, https://www.philosophydef.com/quotes/q0175.

Chicago: Liang Qichao. “The two sayings I have found most useful….” Philosophy Blind Box. Accessed 2026. https://www.philosophydef.com/quotes/q0175.

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More from Liang Qichao

  1. Every occupation has its interest — if only you keep at it, interest will naturally arise.
  2. If the youth are wise, the nation is wise; if the youth are prosperous, the nation is prosperous; if the youth are strong, the nation is strong.
  3. By “renewing the people” we do not mean abandoning all that is old to follow others. Renewal has two senses: to refine what we already have, and to supply what we lack.

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More on responsibility

  1. Justice is doing one's own work and not meddling in others'.
  2. Existence precedes essence.
  3. Man is condemned to be free.
  4. In choosing himself, man chooses all men.
  5. The Master said: The gentleman seeks it in himself; the petty person seeks it in others.

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