 If names be not correct, language is not in accordance with the truth of things. If language be not in accordance with the truth of things, affairs cannot be carried on to success.  The Chinese Classics - Page 69by James Legge - 1870 - 219 pagesFull view - About this book
 | James Legge - Chinese literature - 1869 - 358 pages
...The Master replied, " What is necessary is to rectify names." 3. " So, indeed ! " said Tsze-loo. " You are wide of the mark. Why must there be such rectification...carried on to success, proprieties and music will not nourish. When proprieties and music do not flourish, punishments will not be properly fering in them... | |
 | Sir Robert Kennaway Douglas - China - 1879 - 302 pages
...' answered Confucius; "a superior man shows a cautious reserve in regard to whatjie does not know. If names be not correct, language is not in accordance...the truth of things, affairs cannot be carried on successfully. When affairs cannot be carried on successfully, proprieties and music will not flourish.... | |
 | James Legge - 1887 - 356 pages
...The Master replied, " What is necessary is to rectify names." 3. " So, indeed ! " said Tsze-loo. " You are wide of the mark. Why must there be such rectification...carried on to success, proprieties and music will not nourish. When proprieties and music do not flourish, punishments will not be properly fering in them... | |
 | Confucius - Chinese literature - 1887 - 398 pages
...The Master replied, " What is necessary is to rectify names." 3. u So, indeed ! " said Tsze-loo. " You are wide of the mark. Why must there be such rectification...accordance with the truth of things. If language be not Jin accordance with the truth of things, affairs cannot be carried on to success. 6. " When affairs... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - Literature - 1898 - 536 pages
...things]." "Why must there be such rectification ? " inquired Tsze-loo. The Master replied : " If the names be not correct, language is not in accordance...of things, affairs cannot be carried on to success. Therefore a superior man considers it necessary that the words he uses may be spoken [appropriately],... | |
 | Harry Thurston Peck - Literature - 1901 - 444 pages
...things]." "Why must there be such rectification ? " inquired Tsze-loo. The Master replied : " If the names be not correct, language is not in accordance...of things, affairs cannot be carried on to success. Therefore a superior man considers it necessary that the words he uses may be spoken [appropriately]... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - Literature - 1903 - 542 pages
...things]." "Why must there be such rectification ?" inquired Tsze-loo. The Master replied : " If the names be not correct, language is not in accordance...of things, affairs cannot be carried on to success. Therefore a superior man considers it necessary that the words he uses may be spoken [appropriately],... | |
 | Charles Francis Horne - History, Universal - 1905 - 444 pages
...answered Confucius ; " a superior man shows a cautious reserve in regard to what he does not know. If names be not correct, language is not in accordance...the truth of things, affairs cannot be carried on successfully. When affairs cannot be carried on successfully, proprieties and music will not flourish.... | |
 | James Hastings, John Alexander Selbie, Louis Herbert Gray - Ethics - 1917 - 942 pages
...generally and elevate Belf.'» The ancient Chinese laid great stress on the proper application of names. ' If names be not correct, language is not in accordance with the truth of things, and this would lead to all'airs not succeeding. 'The name without the reality is folly.'4 A bad name... | |
 | James Dyer Ball - China - 1911 - 452 pages
...wives by courtesy only, and their position is a lower one than that of the legal principal wife. " If names be not correct, language is not in accordance with the truth of things," ' is another quotation from the classics, which the Chinese use when in such a case a man calls his... | |
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