Quotes 2017 #359

"He wandered about for twelve years, from his fifty-sixth to his sixty-eighth year. He went from state to state in the hope that somewhere he would be enabled to put his political doctrine into practice. In all the years he never lost confidence in his calling as political mentor and orderer of the Empire, though occasionally he cried out : 'Let me go home, let me go home.' When finally, at the age of sixty-eight, he returned to his native state, he lamented in a poem that after all his wanderings through nine provinces there was still no goal in sight for him : men are without insight, quickly the years pass." (Karl Jaspers, Confucius)