To give one's self earnestly to the duties due to men, and, while respecting spiritual beings, to keep aloof from them, may be called wisdom. The Chinese Classics - עמוד 33מאת Confucius - 1887 - 382 דפיםתצוגה מלאה - מידע על ספר זה
| James Legge - 1861 - 630 דפים
...he returned to a question as to what constituted wisdom. " To give one's-self earnestly," said he, " to the duties due to men, and, while respecting spiritual beings, to keep aloof from them, may be called wisdom."10 At any rate, as by his frequent references to Heaven, instead of following the phraseology... | |
| James Legge - 1893 - 528 דפים
...announced. CHAP. XX. Fan Ch'ih asked what constituted wisdom. The Master said, ' To give one's self earnestly to the duties due to men, and, while respecting spiritual beings, to keep aloof from them, maybe called wisdom.' lie asked about perfect virtue. The Master said, ' The man of virtue makes the... | |
| 1862 - 970 דפים
...answer to the question — What constitutes wisdom ? ho said, " To give one's-self earnestly to the duty due to men, and while respecting spiritual beings, to keep aloof from them, may be called wisdom." Thus, a species of secularism is the only religion which his writings inculcate. They do not even contain... | |
| Maria Hall - 1868 - 410 דפים
...grave, never swerving from the mean and correct, he was fitted to command reverence." " To give oneself earnestly to the duties due to men, and while respecting spiritual beings, to keep aloof from them," he said, " constituted wisdom." The other class may be represented by his grand predecessor, Mencius,... | |
| James Legge - 1869 - 358 דפים
...he returned to a question as to what constituted wisdom. " To give one's-self earnestly/' said he, " to the duties due to men, and, while respecting spiritual...beings, to keep aloof from them, may be called wisdom. " 1 At any rate, as by his frequent references to Heaven, instead of following the phraseology of the... | |
| 1869 - 498 דפים
...Fan-Che asked what constituted wisdom. The Master said, " To give one's self earnestly to the duties of men, and, while respecting spiritual beings, to keep aloof from them, may be called wisdom." It is important to ask whether Confucius, in his whole career, improved upon the light of preceding... | |
| Edward Burnett Tylor - 1871 - 510 דפים
...evasion was worthy of the teacher who expressed his theory of worship in this maxim, " to give oneself earnestly to the duties due to men, and, while respecting...beings, to keep aloof from them, may be called wisdom." It is said that in our own time the Taepings have made a step beyond Confucius ; they have forbidden... | |
| Lucius Edwin Smith, Henry Griggs Weston - 1872 - 524 דפים
...should not be lost sight of in this age of utilitarianism and humauitarianism. "To give one's self earnestly to the duties due to men, and, while respecting...beings, to keep aloof from them, may be called wisdom." Such is his opinion as to God. "We do not yet understand life, how can we know about death ? " This... | |
| Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1872 - 816 דפים
...as to what constituted wisdom. " To give one's self earnestly," sa'd he, " to the duties due to man, and, while respecting spiritual beings, to keep aloof from them, may be called During the life of Confucius his contemporary Lao-tse was dreaming out the system which has since grown... | |
| John Richard T. Eaton - 1873 - 450 דפים
...hand, ethies may, as in Confucianism, overpower and extinguish the religious element. "To give oneself earnestly to the duties due to men, and while respecting...beings, to keep aloof from them, may be called wisdom," this was the maxim and practice of its founder.—See Legge, II. 130, 319. But it has been truly said... | |
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