 | Frank J. Goodnow - China - 1926 - 296 pages
...we cannot know life, how can we know death? * * * To give oneself earnestly to the duties due to men and while respecting spiritual beings to keep aloof from them may be called wisdom. * * * If you wish to know whether the dead have consciousness or not you will know it when you die.... | |
 | Theology - 1898 - 594 pages
...at the expense of duties toward God. Said Confucius : " 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." Duties toward men, however, does not mean duties toward men as individuals. The development of the... | |
 | China - 1928 - 782 pages
...these scholars, Confucius was one. "To give one's self earnestly to the duties toward our fellowmen, and, while respecting spiritual beings, to keep aloof from them, may be called wisdom."1 "To sacrifice to others instead of one's own family spirits is flattery."1 These are typical... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1907 - 646 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... | |
 | John D. Young - Religion - 1983 - 210 pages
...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." (Legge, The Chinese Classics, vol. I, Confucian Analects, p. 191.) 62. TCSI, shang-chuan, pp. 45b-46.... | |
 | Wei-Bin Zhang - Religion - 2000 - 164 pages
...practical wisdom in governing, Confucius replied: To give oneself earnestly to the duties due to men, and, while respecting spiritual beings, to keep aloof from them, may be called wisdom. We may provide another example to see how different environments influenced Smith and Confucius. Technological... | |
 | Bina Gupta - Philosophy - 2002 - 294 pages
...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 difficulty to be overcome... | |
 | N. J. Girardot - Biography & Autobiography - 2002 - 824 pages
...passages used to document Kongzi's nonreligious nature (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," AnalectsV}.\\\\) may mean nothing more than his warning to his disciples about the "superstitious"... | |
 | Ronald Philip Dore - Social Science - 1998 - 500 pages
...appropriate attitude towards supernatural beings has a long tradition going back to Confucius at least. ('While respecting spiritual beings, to keep aloof from them may be called wisdom.')251 During the Tokugawa period, the appropriate attitude which should be displayed towards... | |
 | James Legge - Philosophy - 2006 - 353 pages
...as to what constituted wisdom. " To give one'g-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... | |
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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. 
