 | Samuel Henry Kellogg - Christianity and other religions - 1899 - 198 pages
...the recognition of such duties. Said he : " 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." 2 The views of Laou Tzse it is difficult to set forth with exactness. His works are said by Chinese... | |
 | John Mackinnon Robertson - Free thought - 1899 - 472 pages
...and concerning the spirits in general he taught that "To give one's self to the duties due to men, and while respecting spiritual beings, to keep aloof from them, may be called wisdom ".* He would never express an opinion concerning the fate of souls,4 or encourage prayer ; ' and in... | |
 | Harry Thurston Peck - Literature - 1901 - 444 pages
...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 difficulty [to be overcome]... | |
 | James Hervey Hyslop - Ethics - 1903 - 502 pages
...nourish our nature is the way to serve Heaven." "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 doctrine of our Master is to be true to the principles of our nature and the benevolent exercise... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - Literature - 1903 - 542 pages
...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 difficulty [to be overcome]... | |
 | Leonard Trelawney Hobhouse - Ethics, Evolutionary - 1906 - 314 pages
...instead to their duty towards their neighbours. " To give oneself earnestly to the duties due to men and, while respecting spiritual beings, to keep aloof from them, may be called wisdom." l Nor does Confucius encourage thinking about the future life. Ke Loo asked about serving the spirits... | |
 | John Mackinnon Robertson - Free thought - 1906 - 542 pages
...and concerning the spirits in general he taught that " To give one's self to the duties due to men, and, while respecting spiritual beings, to keep aloof from them, may be called wisdom."4 He would never express an opinion concerning the fate of souls,5 or encourage prayer ;6 and... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1907 - 794 pages
...Above all, we have the celebrated utterance, ' To devote oneself earnestly to the duties owed to men, and, while respecting spiritual beings, to keep aloof from them, may be called wisdom.' Yet he was devout in prayer and fasting, and said, ' He who offends against God has none to whom he... | |
 | Charles Eliot, Sir Charles Eliot - China - 1907 - 248 pages
...Confucius taught in every Chinese school : ' To devote oneself earnestly to one's duties towards man, and while respecting spiritual beings, to keep aloof from them, may be called wisdom.' That is not the wisdom of Madura. There are fanatical sects in China and Japan, but religious enthusiasm... | |
 | James Legge - Confucianism - 1907 - 280 pages
...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 wisdom2.' At any rate, as by his frequent references to Heaven, instead of following the phraseology... | |
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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. 
