 | Lucius Edwin Smith, Henry Griggs Weston - Baptists - 1872 - 524 pages
...should not be lost sight of in this age of utilitarianism and humauitarianism. "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." Such is his opinion as to God. "We do not yet understand life, how can we know about death ? " This... | |
 | Giles Badger Stebbins - Religious literature - 1872 - 408 pages
...all men." He asked about knowledge. The Master said : " It is to know all men. "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... | |
 | Giles Badger Stebbins - Religious literature - 1872 - 416 pages
...all men. " He asked about knowledge. The Master said : " It is to know all men. " 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... | |
 | John Richard T. Eaton - 1873 - 450 pages
...On the other hand, ethies may, as in Confucianism, overpower and extinguish the religious element. "To give oneself earnestly to the duties due to men,...beings, to keep aloof from them, may be called wisdom," this was the maxim and practice of its founder.—See Legge, II. 130, 319. But it has been truly said... | |
 | James Legge - China - 1875 - 364 pages
...not be announced." XX. 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...beings, to keep aloof from them, may be called wisdom." He asked ancestral temple. I have coined the word litanist, to come as near to the meaning as possible.... | |
 | John Merry Ross - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1877 - 625 pages
...the Book of History, or of departed relatives and friends. 'To give one's-self earnestly/ said he, 'to the duties due to men, and, while respecting spiritual beings, to keep aloof from them, may be called true wisdom.' Both his political and social systems assume a perfect rigidity of political and social... | |
 | John Richard Turner Eaton - Apologetics - 1879 - 420 pages
...and extinguish the religious element. See Dollinger, Gentile and Jew, I. 56-8; Legge, II. 130, 319. " To give oneself earnestly to the duties due to men,...beings to keep aloof from them, may be called wisdom," was the maxim and practice of its founder. It is not strange to find, from Mr. Cooper (Pioneer of Commerce),... | |
 | English periodicals - 1881 - 858 pages
...nothing to say about the Divine. The bent and constant attitude of his mind is given in his words : " To give oneself earnestly to the duties due to men,...respecting spiritual beings, to keep aloof from them ; this may be called wisdom." (To be concluded next month.} THE ROAD TO THE POLE. . Sachtmj Cruise... | |
 | 1881 - 704 pages
...nothing to say about the Divine. The bent and constant attitude of his mind is given in his words : "To give oneself earnestly to the duties due to men,...respecting spiritual beings, to keep aloof from them ; this may be called wisdom," We must not look to Confucius, then, for any light upon religious matters... | |
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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... 
