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Confucius said: "Learning without thinking is labor lost;
thinking without learning is perilous." [II:15]
Confucius said: "Yu, shall I teach you what knowledge is?
When you know a thing, say that you know it; when you do not know a thing, admit
that you do not know it. That is knowledge." [II:17]
Confucius said: "Worthy indeed was Hui! A single bamboo
bowl of millet to eat, a gourdful of water to drink, living in a back alley뾬thers
would have found it unendurably depressing, but Hui's cheerfulness was not
affected at all. Worthy indeed was Hui!" [VI:9]
When Yen Hui died Confucius bewailed him with exceeding grief.
His followers thereupon said to him: "Sir! You are carrying your grief to
excess." Confucius said: "Have I gone to excess? But if I may not
grieve exceedingly over this man, for whom shall I grieve?" [XI:9]
Confucius said: "A young man's duty is to be filial to his
parents at home and respectful to his elders abroad, to be circumspect and
truthful, and, while overflowing with love for all men, to associate himself
with humanity (ren). If, when all that is done, he has any energy to
spare, then let him study the polite arts." [I:6]
Confucius said: "Shen! My teaching contains one principle
that runs through it all.""Yes," replied Zeng Zi. When Confucius
had left the room the disciples asked: "What did he mean?" Zeng Zi
replied: "Our Master's teaching is simply this: loyalty and
reciprocity." [IV:15]
Zigong asked: "Is there any one word that can serve as a
principle for the conduct of life?" Confucius said: "Perhaps the word
몉eciprocity?
Do not do to others what you would not want others to do to you." [XV:23]
Fan Chi asked about humanity. Confucius said: "Love
men." [XII:22]
Zi Zhang asked Confucius about humanity. Confucius said:
"To be able to practice five virtues everywhere in the world constitutes
humanity." Zi Zhang begged to know what these were. Confucius said:
"Courtesy, magnanimity, good faith, diligence, and kindness. He who is
courteous is not humiliated, he who is magnanimous wins the multitude, he who is
of good faith is trusted by the people, he who is diligent attains his
objective, and he who is kind can get service from the people." [XVII:6]
Confucius said: "Without humanity a man cannot long endure
adversity, nor can he long enjoy prosperity. The humane rest in humanity; the
wise find it beneficial." [IV:2]
Confucius said: "Only the humane man can love men and can
hate men." [IV:3]
Someone inquired: "What do you think of
몉equiting
injury with kindness?" Confucius said: "How will you then requite
kindness? Requite injury with justice, and kindness with kindness."
[XIV:36]
Confucius said: "Is humanity something remote? If I want to
be humane, behold, humanity has arrived." [VII:29]
Confucius said: ..."Is there anyone who exerts himself even
for a single day to achieve humanity? I have not seen any who had not the
strength to achieve it." [IV:6]
Confucius said: "As to Hui, for three months his mind did
not deviate from humanity. The others can do so, some for a day, some even for a
month, but that is all." [VI:5]
Confucius said: "Riches and honor are what every man
desires, but if they can be obtained only by transgressing the right way, they
must not be held. Poverty and lowliness are what every man detests, but if they
can be avoided only by transgressing the right way, they must not be evaded. If
a gentleman departs from humanity, how can he bear the name? Not even for the
lapse of a single meal does a gentleman ignore humanity. In moments of haste he
cleaves to it: in seasons of peril he cleaves to it." [IV:5]
Confucius said: "The resolute scholar and the humane person
will under no circumstance seek life at the expense of humanity. On occasion
they will sacrifice their lives to preserve their humanity."
Source: William Theodore de Bary et al., ed. Sources of
Chinese Tradition. Vol. 1. New York: Columbia
University Press,
1960.
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