 | Eric H. Kessler, James R. Bailey - Business & Economics - 2007 - 657 pages
...more in line with respect as per the idea that "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." Taoist doctrine tends to see wisdom as learned, particularly through introspection. Obviously, the... | |
 | Alasdair T. R. Laurie - Religions - 2007 - 69 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... | |
 | Young Men's Christian associations - 1920 - 446 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.' " (Analects 6.20; Legge 1.35.) On the other hand, it may be asked, whether Confucius himself did not... | |
 | 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 - 630 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... | |
 | Edward Burnett Tylor - Animism - 1874 - 490 pages
...expressed his theory 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 be called wisdom." It is said that in our own time the Taepings have made a step beyond Confucius ; they have forbidden... | |
 | Henry Boynton Smith, James Manning Sherwood - Presbyterianism - 1863 - 714 pages
..." What constitutes wisdom ? " he replied : " 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". His own departure out of life was one of the most melancholy on record. lie died apparently •without... | |
 | Christianity - 1867 - 616 pages
...what constituted wisdom. " To give oneself earnestly," said he, " to the duties due to men, and wlrile respecting spiritual beings, to keep aloof from them, may be called wisdom." And, again, among the four things which it is said he taught, " truthfulness" is specified ; and many... | |
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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. 
