Q0180

Liang Shuming

A verified English rendering from the curated archive.

English

The meaning of human life lies in creation.
Thinker Liang Shuming
School Modern New Confucianism
Source Morning Talks et al.
Theme Creation
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Source context

This English passage is associated with Morning Talks et al., within the tradition of Modern New Confucianism. 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 creation, the sentence asks the reader to test an assumption rather than to collect a slogan. In Liang Shuming'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 Shuming. (n.d.). The meaning of human life lies in creation. In Philosophy Blind Box. https://www.philosophydef.com/quotes/q0180

MLA: Liang Shuming. “The meaning of human life lies in creation..” Philosophy Blind Box, https://www.philosophydef.com/quotes/q0180.

Chicago: Liang Shuming. “The meaning of human life lies in creation..” Philosophy Blind Box. Accessed 2026. https://www.philosophydef.com/quotes/q0180.

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More from Liang Shuming

  1. Attitudes toward life are basically three: striving forward, holding the mean in harmony, and turning back inward.

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More on creation

  1. One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.
  2. For a conscious being, to exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.
  3. Three metamorphoses of the spirit I name for you: how the spirit becomes a camel, and the camel a lion, and the lion at last a child.
  4. The world has kissed my soul with its pain, asking for its return in songs.
  5. The universe… is a machine for the making of gods.

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