Q0492

Mozi

A verified English rendering from the curated archive.

English

If all under Heaven love one another universally, there is order; if they hate one another mutually, there is disorder.
Thinker Mozi
School Mohism
Source Mozi, Universal Love
Theme Love
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Source context

This English passage is associated with Mozi, Universal Love, within the tradition of Mohism. 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 love, the sentence asks the reader to test an assumption rather than to collect a slogan. In Mozi'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: Mozi. (n.d.). If all under Heaven love one another universally, there is order; if they hate one another mutually, there is disorder. In Philosophy Blind Box. https://www.philosophydef.com/quotes/q0492

MLA: Mozi. “If all under Heaven love one another universally,….” Philosophy Blind Box, https://www.philosophydef.com/quotes/q0492.

Chicago: Mozi. “If all under Heaven love one another universally,….” Philosophy Blind Box. Accessed 2026. https://www.philosophydef.com/quotes/q0492.

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  1. Care for one another impartially, and benefit one another mutually.

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  1. Love is the desire for the perpetual possession of the good.
  2. A friend is another self.
  3. If you wish to be loved, love.
  4. Late have I loved you, beauty so ancient and so new, late have I loved you!
  5. Compassion is the basis of morality.

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