子曰：‘《诗》三百，一言以蔽之，曰：‘思无邪’。’
The Master said: There are three hundred songs in the Poetry, yet one phrase cover them all: "Thoughts unswerving."
'The Poetry' refers to an anthology of popular and court songs largely complied during the pre-Classical era(c. 1000-600). The Confucian school believed it had been complied by sages, such as the founding Zhou Dynasty kings, and was thus a repository of wisdom. Confucius himself was seen as its final editor.
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