In the world there are many different roads but the destination is the same. There are a hundred deliberations but the result is one.
Confucius
The Result Is One
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Confucius said… “In the world there are many different roads but the destination is the same. There are a hundred deliberations but the result is one.”
Confucius
ConfucianismI Ching (Appended Remarks)
Wilson, Andrew, editor. World Scripture - a Comparative Anthology of Sacred Texts. Paragon House, 1991, p. 33 [I Ching, Appended Remarks 2.5].
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I Ching, Appended Remarks 2.5
It is said in the Change, “Full of anxious thoughts you come and go. [Only] friends will follow you and think of you.” The Master (Confucius) said “What is there in the world to think about or to deliberate about? In the world there are many different roads but the destination is the same. There are a hundred deliberations but the result is one. What is there in the world to think about or to deliberate about?”
Comment: The idea of a hundred roads to the same destination is a direct expression of the spirit of synthesis which is extremely strong in Chinese philosophy. It is the Confucian version of Chuang Tzu’s doctrine of following two courses at the same time.
–Wing-Tsit Chan [A Sourcebook in Chinese Philosophy, Translated and compiled by Wing-Tsit Chan (Princeton University Press, 1963)] p. 268.