 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1907 - 794 pages
...when one of the ministers of Lu asked him what constituted 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, — that may be called wisdom." But what belief underlay the practice, as ancient as the first footprints... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1907 - 794 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... | |
 | Charles Eliot, Sir Charles Eliot - China - 1907 - 248 pages
...Confucius taught in every Chinese school : ' To devote oneself earnestly to one's duties towards man, and while respecting spiritual beings, to keep aloof from them, may be called wisdom.' That is not the wisdom of Madura. There are fanatical sects in China and Japan, but religious enthusiasm... | |
 | Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse - Ethics, Evolutionary - 1908 - 312 pages
...to do with them as possible, and devote themselves instead to their duty towards their neighbours. " To give oneself earnestly to the duties due to men...beings, to keep aloof from them, may be called wisdom." l Nor does Confucius encourage thinking about the future life. Ke Loo asked about serving the spirits... | |
 | James Legge - Confucianism - 1909 - 356 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.... | |
 | Johann Jakob Herzog, Albert Hauck, Samuel Macauley Jackson, Charles Colebrook Sherman, George William Gilmore - Theology - 1909 - 530 pages
...disciples when they pried into things beyond their depth. " 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 wisdom." This is his teaching in regard to the ancient creed of China. While he enjoined respect for its worship... | |
 | W. Gilbert Walshe - Confucianism - 1911 - 66 pages
...point is afforded by his reply to Fan K'i who asked him what Constituted wisdom ; the master said : " to give oneself earnestly to the duties due to men,...beings, to keep aloof fr\om them may be called wisdom," — and the conversation recorded in the "Family Sayings," Tsze Kung asked him. " Do the dead have... | |
 | Robert Elliott Speer - Christianity and other religions - 1911 - 450 pages
...(Legge, "The Life and Teachings of Confucius," p. 101.) "To give one's self earnestly," said Confucius, "to the duties due to men, and, while respecting spiritual...beings, to keep aloof from them, may be called wisdom." (P. 102.) In this view of the Chinese it has been said that they are a people without religion. "This... | |
 | Huan-chang Chʻen - China - 1911 - 792 pages
...talk about extraordinary things and spiritual beings.2 " 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 wisdom." * In Confucianism, there is no prayer. Confucius being very sick, Tzu-lu, his pupil, asked leave to... | |
 | William Elliot Griffis - Japan - 1912 - 506 pages
...propriety and etiquette, and to ceremony and usage. Ho said that " To give one's self to the duties duo to men and -while respecting spiritual beings to keep aloof from them, may be called wisdom. " 5 We think that Confucius cut the tap-root of all true progress, and therefore is largely responsible... | |
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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... 
