When you do not know about life, how can you know about death?" And do not the Analects tell us that "The Master never talked of prodigies, feats of strength, disorders, or spirits"? Of all the quotations and literary allusions in the poems, the overwhelming... Social and Cultural Dynamics - Strana 51podľa Pitirim AleksandroviÄ SorokinObmedzený náhľad - O tejto knihe
| William Muirhead - 1870 - Počet stránok 344
...can you serve the spirits?" The disciple added, "I venture to ask about death," and he was told, " you do not know about life, how can you know about death ?" When inquired of as to the dead having a knowledge of our services, the master said, "If I were... | |
| Frederic William Farrar - 1871 - Počet stránok 232
...serve their spirits?' The disciple added, ' I venture to ask about death;' he was answered, 'While you do not know about life, how can you know about death.'" Ibid. XI. II. "Tsze-Kung asked him, 'Do the dead have knowledge?' The master said, ' You need not wish... | |
| Frederic William Farrar - 1871 - Počet stránok 230
...serve their spirits?' The disciple added, ' I venture to ask about death;' he was answered, 'While you do not know about life, how can you know about death.'" Ibid. XI. II. "Tsze-Kung asked him, ' Do the dead have knowledge?' The master said,' You need not wish... | |
| 1882 - Počet stránok 830
...supernatural questions. " I venture to ask about death," said one of his disciples. He answered, " While you do not know about life, how can you know about death ? " * When asked, again, about the actual presence of the spirits of ancestors at the time of worship,... | |
| Sir Robert Kennaway Douglas - 1894 - Počet stránok 488
...people. CHAPTER XII. FUNERAL RITES. " I VENTURE to ask about death," said Chi Lu to Confucius. "While you do not know about life, how can you know about death ? " was the unsatisfying reply. And though this is the orthodox Confucian view of the momentous question,... | |
| Edith Jemima Simcox - 1894 - Počet stránok 568
...spirits?" (Analects, xi. II). And when the indiscreet scholar proceeded "to ask about death :" "While you do not know about life, how can you know about death?" was the reply. Still more ingenious is the recorded evasion of the question whether the dead have knowledge... | |
| 1913 - Počet stránok 136
...beyond the power of the greatest scholar. I bethink myself of the words of the great Confucius : " While you do not know about life how can you know about death? " Immortality is the hope of the human race; it is the most attractive feature of the Christian teaching,... | |
| George Foot Moore - 1913 - Počet stránok 692
...universe ruling it from without. Concerning death Confucius preserved an agnostic reticence—when you do not know about life, how can you know about death? Chu Hi, like the sensualist Yang Chu and the materialist Wang Ch'ung, though from different premises,... | |
| George Foot Moore - 1913 - Počet stránok 668
...the universe ruling it from without. Concerning death Confucius preserved an agnostic reticence — when you do not know about life, how can you know about death? Chu Hi, like the sensualist Yang Chu and the materialist Wang Ch'ung, though from different premises,... | |
| Pitirim Aleksandrovich Sorokin - 1928 - Počet stránok 824
...Confucius' mottoes. Another is given by him in his answer to the question about human fate after death: "When you do not know about life how can you know about death?" 57 Read The Texts of Confucianism published in The Sacred Books of the East, Vols. Ill, XXVII, XXVIII;... | |
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