 | James Legge - China - 1893 - 528 pages
...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...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... | |
 | 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 the phraseology... | |
 | Maria Hall - 1868 - 410 pages
...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,... | |
 | Baptists - 1869 - 498 pages
...you do not know life, how can you know about death." Another answer is still more decided. 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... | |
 | John Merry Ross - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1877 - 625 pages
...the Book of History, or of departed relatives and friends. '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 true wisdom.' Both his political and social systems assume a perfect rigidity of political and social... | |
 | 1881 - 704 pages
...about the Divine. The bent and constant attitude of his mind is given in his words : "To give oneself earnestly to the duties due to men, and while respecting spiritual beings, to keep aloof from them ; this may be called wisdom," We must not look to Confucius, then, for any light upon religious matters... | |
 | English periodicals - 1881 - 858 pages
...about the Divine. The bent and constant attitude of his mind is given in his words : " To give oneself earnestly to the duties due to men, and while respecting spiritual beings, to keep aloof from them ; this may be called wisdom." (To be concluded next month.} THE ROAD TO THE POLE. . Sachtmj Cruise... | |
 | James Legge - 1887 - 360 pages
...2 Ana. XL xl. Ana. VIL f 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... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1888 - 900 pages
...at the same tinas, when one of the ministers of Lu asked him what constituted wisdom, he replied : " To give one's self earnestly to the duties due to men, and while resptr.'ii'g spiritual beings, to keep aloof from them, — that may b;~ called wisdom." But what belief... | |
 | Edward Burnett Tylor - Animism - 1889 - 490 pages
...vii. p. 629; see Turpin, 'Siam,' ibid. voL ir. p. -600. of worship in this maxim, " to give oneself earnestly to the duties due to men, and, while respecting spiritual beings, to keep aloof from them, may he called wisdom." It is said that in our own time the Taepings have made a step beyond Confucius ;... | |
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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 wisdom2. 
