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" To those whose talents are above mediocrity, the highest subjects may be announced. To those who are below mediocrity, the highest subjects may not be announced.' CHAP. XX. Fan Ch'ih asked what constituted wisdom. The Master said, To give one's self earnestly... "
Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy ... - Page 43
by Edward Burnett Tylor - 1873
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The Reformed Church Review

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...
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The Far East

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...
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The Far East: a Political and Diplomatic History

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...
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The Chinese Social and Political Science Review, Volume 12

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...
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A Short History of Civilization

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...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 207

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...
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Confucianism and Christianity: The First Encounter, Volume 1

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....
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On Adam Smith and Confucius: The Theory of Moral Sentiments and the Analects

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...
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Ethical Questions: East and West

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...
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The Victorian Translation of China: James Legge's Oriental Pilgrimage

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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