 States, they first regulated their families. Wishing to regulate their families, they first cultivated their persons. Wishing to cultivate their persons, they first rectified their hearts. Wishing to rectify their hearts, they first sought to be sincere...  The Chinese Classics - Page 266by James Legge - 1867Full view - About this book
 | Thomas B. McMullen, Jr - Technology & Engineering - 1998 - 324 pages
...positive, his contribution has already run far and wide, and his story is only just now beginning.l4 "Wishing to rectify their hearts, they first sought...extension of knowledge lay in the investigation of things. Things being investigated, knowledge became complete. Their knowledge being complete, their thoughts... | |
 | Mark W. Janis, Carolyn Maree Evans - Political Science - 1999 - 544 pages
...they first cultivated their persons. To cultivate their persons, they first rectified their hearts. To rectify their hearts, they first sought to be sincere in their thoughts. To be sincere in their thoughts, they first extended to the utmost their knowledge. Such extension... | |
 | Wei-Bin Zhang - Religion - 2000 - 164 pages
...regulate their families, they first cultivated their persons. Wishing to cultivate their persons, they first rectified their hearts. Wishing to rectify their...extension of knowledge lay in the investigation of things. Things being investigated, knowledge became complete. Their knowledge being investigated, their thoughts... | |
 | Mary Hayden, John Jeffrey Thompson - Education - 2000 - 236 pages
...regulate their families, they first cultivated their persons. Wishing to cultivate their persons, they first rectified their hearts. Wishing to rectify their...extension of knowledge lay in the investigation of things. That expression of faith was written two-and-a-half millennia ago by Confucius. It seems to me that... | |
 | Kingsley Bolton, Christopher Hutton - History - 2000 - 338 pages
...their persons, they first rectified their hearts. , Wishing to rectify their hearts, they first Bought to be sincere in their thoughts. Wishing »to be sincere...of knowledge lay in the investigation of things." (') Tlie two characters jj£ Sf underneath the Amulet mean: To attain fie unu of ttame by jicixy oxe't... | |
 | Børge Bakken - Education - 2000 - 542 pages
...New York, Vintage Books, 1979. 98. See Michael R. Dunon, p. 106. 99. The rest of the quotation goes: 'Wishing to be sincere in their thoughts, they first...extension of knowledge lay in the investigation of things. Things being investigated, knowledge became complete. Their knowledge betng complete, their thoughts... | |
 | Will Durant - History - 2002 - 351 pages
...their families, they first cultivated their own selves. Wishing to cultivate their own selves, they first rectified their hearts. Wishing to rectify their...extension of knowledge lay in the investigation of things. Things being investigated, knowledge became complete. Their knowledge being complete, their thoughts... | |
 | Andre Schmid - History - 2002 - 388 pages
...regulate their families, they first cultivated their persons. Wishing to cultivate their persons, they first rectified their hearts. Wishing to rectify their...extension of knowledge lay in the investigation of things. Things being investigated, knowledge became complete." As translated in James Legge, The Chinese Classics... | |
 | Wei-Bin Zhang - History - 2003 - 458 pages
...regulate their families, they first cultivated their persons. Wishing to cultivate their persons, they first rectified their hearts. Wishing to rectify their...they first extended to the utmost their knowledge." According to Confucianism, there are petty and great societies. "When a man sees good," portrayed Hsiin... | |
 | Grace H. Turnbull - Classical literature - 2001 - 452 pages
...Wishing to regulate their families, they first rectified their own hearts. Wishing to rectify their own hearts, they first sought to be sincere in their thoughts. Wishing to be sincere in their thoughts, they extended to the utmost their knowledge. From the loving example of one family, the whole state may... | |
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