 To those whose talents are above mediocrity, the highest subjects may be announced. To those who are below mediocrity, the highest subjects may not be announced.' CHAP. XX. Fan Ch'ih asked what constituted wisdom. The Master said, To give one's self earnestly...  Erasmus, and Other Essays - Page 250by Marcus Dods - 1891 - 376 pagesFull view - About this book
 | James Legge - China - 1861 - 536 pages
...announced." CHAPTER XX. Fan Ch'e 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, may be called wisdom." He asked about perfect virtue. The Master said, "The man of virtue makes the... | |
 | James Legge - China - 1861 - 630 pages
...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... | |
 | 1862 - 970 pages
...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.... | |
 | James Legge - China - 1867 - 344 pages
...not be announced/' XX. Fan Ch/e 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, may be called wisdom." He asked ancestral temple. I have coined the word litanist, to come as near... | |
 | Augustus Ward Loomis - China - 1867 - 444 pages
...WISDOM AND KNOWLEDGE. Fan Ch'e 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, may be called wisdom." He asked about perfect virtue. The Master said, " The man of virtue makes the... | |
 | Maria Hall - 1868 - 410 pages
...Self-adjusted, grave, never swerving from the mean and correct, he was fitted to command reverence." " To give oneself earnestly to the duties due to men,...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 - Chinese literature - 1869 - 358 pages
...not be announced." XX. Fan Ch'e 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, may be called wisdom." He asked ancestral temple. I have coined the word lifanist, to come as near... | |
 | James Legge - Chinese literature - 1870 - 398 pages
...not be announced." XX. Fan Ch'e 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, may be called wisdom." He asked about perfect virtue. The Master said, "The man of virtue makes the... | |
 | Edward Burnett Tylor - Animism - 1871 - 510 pages
...unburied. The 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,...respecting spiritual 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... | |
 | Lucius Edwin Smith, Henry Griggs Weston - Baptists - 1872 - 524 pages
...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 spiritual 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... | |
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