 | 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
...XL xi. 3 Ana. VII. xxiii. 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... | |
 | Eric H. Kessler, James R. Bailey - Business & Economics - 2007 - 657 pages
...Confucian thought sees wisdom as 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...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
...was just.'" Book 6, 20 "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... | |
 | Edward Burnett Tylor - Animism - 1874 - 490 pages
...leave their parents unburied. The evasion was characteristic of the teacher who expressed his theory of worship in this maxim, " to give oneself earnestly...our own time the Taepings have made a step beyond Confucius ; they have forbidden the sacrifices to the spirits of the dead, yet keep up the rite of... | |
 | Henry Boynton Smith, James Manning Sherwood - Presbyterianism - 1863 - 714 pages
...the "Analects " [6 : 20], when asked, " What constitutes wisdom ? " he replied : " To give one's self earnestly to the duties due to men, and while respecting...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... | |
 | Young Men's Christian associations - 1920 - 446 pages
...spiritual realm? "Fan Ch'e asked, 'What constituted wisdom?' The Master said : 'To give one's-self earnestly to the duties due to men, and, while respecting...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
...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... | |
 | Archaeology - 1904 - 580 pages
...state. In answer to a question from a Minister of State as to what constituted wisdom, the sage replied: "To give oneself earnestly to the duties due to men, and while respecting spiritual beings, if there are such, to keep aloof from them — this may be called wisdom." Being asked by a disciple... | |
 | 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 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... 
