 | Alfred Wilhelm Martin - Religions - 1911 - 308 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 ? '" Still more striking is a conversation with another disciple, recorded in the "Narratives of the... | |
 | Robert Elliott Speer - Christianity and other religions - 1911 - 424 pages
...serve men, how can you serve 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.' " (Legge, "The Life and Teachings of Confucius," p. 101.) "To give one's self earnestly," said Confucius,... | |
 | China - 1914 - 640 pages
...serve men, how can you serve their spirits?" Kuei Loo added, "I venture to ask about death ? " He was answered, "While you do not know life, how can you know about death ? " CHAPTER XII. 1. — The disciple Min was standing by his side, looking bland and precise ; Tsze-loo,... | |
 | Allen Upward - 1915 - 306 pages
...sentiment is quoted by Paul from Aratus, the astronomer-poet of Greece. serve spirits ? "—and again—" While you do not know life how can you know about death ? "1 Equally negative of theistic cults of all kinds was the teaching of the great mystic, Lao, in... | |
 | Sydney Cave - Asia - 1921 - 264 pages
...that worship presupposes. " While you are not able to serve men how can you serve their spirits ? " " While you do not 'know life, how can you know about death ? " 3 His interest lay jn this world, not in the next. " To give one's-self earnestly to the duties... | |
 | Emile Hovelaque - China - 1923 - 308 pages
...he knew no other religion than that of humanity; harmony of life was for him the sole end of life. "While you do not know life, how can you know about death?" he said. — "Beware of religions." — "Man need not concern himself with what lies beyond him; he... | |
 | Charles Wilfrid Allan - China - 1925 - 274 pages
...to serve men, how can you serve their spirits," Chi Lu added: "I venture to ask about death?" He was answered: "While you do not know life, how can you know about death?" There is hardly any doubt that Confucius had a consciousness of a supreme power in the world, but it... | |
 | Alfred Wilhelm Martin - Religious literature - 1925 - 182 pages
...— Buddhist. The disciple asked Confucius, "I venture to inquire about death." The Master replied, "While you do not know life, how can you know about death?" Man never dies. It is because men see only their bodies that they hate death. — Chinese. I entertain... | |
 | Alfred Wilhelm Martin - Religion - 1926 - 140 pages
...comes after death. Invariably he made answer by pointing to the unfulfilled duties of the present life: "While you do not know life how can you know about death or the hereafter?" Opposite Hinduism we read "reunion with Brahma." But this belief was reached only... | |
 | Emory Richard Johnson - China - 1928 - 242 pages
...to 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?'" (Analects XI, xi.) It is clear that while Confucius desired his countrymen to continue their religious... | |
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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... 
