The "Tao Te Ching" and "The Analects" are collections of philosophical aphorisms that express universal truths about life. They each tend to articulate a series of ideologies that diversify a reader's intellect through behavioral guidelines that are needed within a society. It was by these strict guidelines that the ancient masters, Confucius and Lao Tzu, organized themselves into chronic prosperity while existing in the harsh calamities that the real world provides. Early Taoists and Confucianists …showed first 75 words of 616 total…

…showed last 75 words of 616 total…Tzu teaches that the Tao is a natural order with which people should not interfere. He instructs that a person should not question their role in society and it is by this acceptance that a civilization presides over any other. In conclusion, the similarities and differences that subsist between the two are broadly uncanny; but as distinguishing as each attitude might be, they both share the magnificence of serving as great contributions to various cultures.