 | Confucius - Ethics - 1895 - 146 pages
...to serve men, how can you serve their spirits?" KeLoo added, "I venture to ask about death." He was answered, ' ' While you do not know life, how can you know about death ? " Confucian An., Seen Tsin (ch. xi.). 2. All who speak about the natures of things have in fact only... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - Literature - 1897 - 504 pages
...serve men, how can you serve their spirits ? " Ke Loo added, " I venture to ask about death." He was answered, "While you do not know life, how can you know about death?" — CONFUCIAN AN., Seen Tsin (ch. xi.). For all affairs let there be adequate preparation. With preparation... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - Literature - 1898 - 536 pages
...men, how can you serve [their] spirits?" Ke-loo continued : "I venture to ask about death." He was answered: "While you do not know life, how can you know about death ?" — Analects, Book XI. Tsze-kung asked about government. The Master said : " The requisites of government... | |
 | Harry Thurston Peck - Literature - 1901 - 444 pages
...men, how can you serve [their] spirits ? " Ke-loo continued : " I venture to ask about death." He was answered : " While you do not know life, how can you know about death ? " Tsze-loo said : "The prince of Wei has been waiting for you, in order with you to administer the... | |
 | Robert Elliott Speer - Missions - 1902 - 568 pages
...men, how can you serve their spirits?' The disciple added, 'I venture to ask about death,' and he was answered, ' While you do not know life, how can you know about death ? ' " But Confucius was not a sincere agnostic. " He sacrificed to the dead as if they were present,"... | |
 | 1903 - 772 pages
...men, how can you serve their spirits?" The disciple added, " I venture to ask about death," and he was answered, "While you do not know life, how can you know about death?" ' But Confucius was not a sincere agnostic. He sacrificed to the dead as if they were present,' we... | |
 | East Asia - 1903 - 430 pages
...against it the passage: "While you are not able to serve men alive, how can you serve their spirits? While you do not know life, how can you know about death?" (Anal. XI, n). But Confucius simply declines here unprofitable speculations about the condition of... | |
 | Ethics - 1904 - 214 pages
...It is the half-wise and the half-foolish, who are the most dangerous. — Goethe. JUNE 21. Morning. While you do not know life, how can you know about death? — The Chinese Sages. Evening. In some sort the end of life is that the man should take up the universe... | |
 | Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse - Ethics, Evolutionary - 1906 - 312 pages
...serve men, how can you serve their spirits ? " Ke Loo added, " I venture to ask about death." He was answered, " While you do not know life, how can you know about death ? " 2 Only the consciousness that the Supreme spiritual being who inhabits Heaven knows him through... | |
 | Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse - 1906 - 312 pages
...serve men, how can you serve their spirit ? " Ke Loo added, " I venture to ask about death." He was answered, " While you do not know life, how can you know about death ? " 2 Only the consciousness that the Supreme spiritual being who inhabits Heaven knows him through... | |
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While you are not able to serve men, how can you serve their spirits ? ' The disciple added, ' I venture to ask about death/ and he was answered, 'While you do not know life, how can you know about death... 
