Q0317

Wang Fuzhi

A verified English rendering from the curated archive.

English

Habit and nature come to completion together and transform with each other.
Thinker Wang Fuzhi
School Practical Learning
Source Du Tongjian Lun
Theme Habit
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Source context

This English passage is associated with Du Tongjian Lun, within the tradition of Practical Learning. 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 habit, the sentence asks the reader to test an assumption rather than to collect a slogan. In Wang Fuzhi'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: Wang Fuzhi. (n.d.). Habit and nature come to completion together and transform with each other. In Philosophy Blind Box. https://www.philosophydef.com/quotes/q0317

MLA: Wang Fuzhi. “Habit and nature come to completion together and….” Philosophy Blind Box, https://www.philosophydef.com/quotes/q0317.

Chicago: Wang Fuzhi. “Habit and nature come to completion together and….” Philosophy Blind Box. Accessed 2026. https://www.philosophydef.com/quotes/q0317.

Same thinker

More from Wang Fuzhi

  1. All under heaven is nothing but concrete things (qi). The Way is the Way of things; one cannot reverse this and call things merely vessels of an abstract Way.
  2. The great method of ordering the world lies in discerning the times and gauging the situation.

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Same theme

More on habit

  1. Virtues arise in us neither by nature nor contrary to nature; we are fitted by nature to receive them, and are brought to completion by habit.
  2. Your mind will take the shape of what you frequently hold in thought, for the soul is dyed by its impressions.
  3. Habit is the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent.
  4. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts.
  5. So too, by doing just acts we become just, by doing temperate acts temperate, and by doing brave acts brave.

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