| Theology - 1898 - 594 pages
...the duties toward man is 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... | |
| Payson Jackson Treat - China - 1928 - 602 pages
...into countless castes. Their attitude toward the gods has been well summed up by their great sage : To give oneself earnestly to the duties due to men,...respecting spiritual beings, to keep aloof from them — that may be called wisdom. So the masses have adopted a very human relationship toward the gods... | |
| Payson Jackson Treat - China - 1928 - 602 pages
...into countless castes. Their attitude toward the gods has been well summed up by their great sage: To give oneself earnestly to the duties due to men,...while respecting spiritual beings, to keep aloof from them—that may be called wisdom. So the masses have adopted a very human relationship toward the gods—make... | |
| 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... | |
| Lynn Thorndike - Civilization - 1926 - 702 pages
...can you serve spirits? While you do not know life, what can you know about death? To give one's self earnestly to the duties due to men, and, while respecting spiritual beings, to keep aloof from them, that may be called wisdom." Such were the answers he gave, when questioned about such matters, and... | |
| 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
...death?' 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
...quotation runs as follows: 'Fan Ch'ih asked what constituted wisdom. The Master said, "To give one's self earnestly to the duties due to men, and, while respecting...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
...belong to him is flattery. When Fan Chi asked about practical wisdom in governing, Confucius replied: To give oneself earnestly to the duties due to men,...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
...VII BOOK VI Chapter XX Fan Ch'ih asked what constituted wisdom. The Master said, "To give one's self earnestly to the duties due to men, and, while respecting...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
...that the most famous of all 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"... | |
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