Tuesday, November 22, 2011

What specifically are the works of Confucius?

I saw one though I can't understand it. Check: http://oll.libertyfund.org/?option=com_s鈥?/a> If you know a few, answer please? Thank you!|||The works of Confucius may be found in the Analects of Confucius, a collection of "brief aphoristic fragments", which was compiled many years after his death. Modern historians do not believe that any specific documents can be said to have been written by Confucius, but for nearly 2,000 years he was thought to be the editor or author of all the Five Classics such as the "Classic of Rites", and the "Spring and Autumn Annals".





http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confucius





You'll have to be more specific on the "one you saw."





These are some of the more popular Confucius quotations:





The first ones from @`The Confucian Analects' `The Chinese Classics' (1861-1886) tr. James Legge





Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.





Without knowing the `force' of words, it is impossible to know men.





Have no friends not equal to yourself.





The cautious seldom err.





Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.





The scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.





The superior man is distressed by his want of ability.





When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it--this is knowledge.





I haven't a source for these yet:





A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.





He who wishes to secure the good of others has already secured his own.





Heaven means to be one with God.


@Quotee by Canon Farrar `Sermons'





I hear and I forget.


I see and I remember.


I do and I understand.





Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.





The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance.





Virtue is like the polar star, which keeps its place, and all stars turn towards it.





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http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Confucius|||he said: Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder - this means drink more beer.

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