Weighed in China's Balance: An Attempt at ExplanationHeath, Cranton Limited, 1928 - 238 pagini |
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Pagina 160 - The kingdom of heaven is like to a grain of mustard seed, which a man took and sowed in his field : which indeed is the least of all seeds : but when it is grown, it is the greatest among herbs, and becometh a tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge in the branches thereof.
Pagina 156 - Even the very dust of your city, which cleaveth on us, we do wipe off against you: notwithstanding, be ye sure of this, that the kingdom of God is come nigh unto you.
Pagina 61 - Once upon a time, I, Chuang Tzu, dreamt I was a butterfly, fluttering hither and thither, to all intents and purposes a butterfly. I was conscious only of following my fancies as a butterfly, and was unconscious of my individuality as a man.
Pagina 66 - Wert thou once some ambitious citizen whose inordinate yearnings brought him to this pass?— some statesman who plunged his country in ruin and perished in the fray? — some wretch who left behind him a legacy of shame? — some beggar who died in the pangs of hunger and cold? Or didst thou reach this state by the natural course of old age?
Pagina 201 - Waft, waft, ye winds, His story, And you, ye waters, roll, Till like a sea of glory It spreads from pole to pole; Till o'er our...
Pagina 60 - He who clearly apprehends the scheme of existence does not rejoice over life, nor repine at death; for he knows that terms are not final. "What man knows is not to be compared with what he does not know. The span of his existence is not to be compared with the span of his nonexistence.
Pagina 47 - I would also be good, in order to make them good. With the faithful I would keep faith; with the unfaithful I would also keep faith, in order that they may become faithful.
Pagina 53 - It is better than skill. When I first began to cut up bullocks, I saw before me simply whole bullocks. After three years' practice, I saw no more whole animals (but saw them, so to speak, in sections).
Pagina 65 - I have heard that in Ch'u there is a sacred tortoise which has been dead now some three thousand years, and that the prince keeps this tortoise carefully enclosed in a chest on the altar of his ancestral temple. Now would this tortoise rather be dead and have its remains venerated, or be alive and wagging its tail in the mud ? " " It would rather be alive," replied the two officials, " and wagging its tail in the mud.
Pagina 67 - With Heaven and Earth for my coffin and shell; with the sun, moon, and stars as my burial regalia; and with all creation to escort me to the grave, — are not my funeral paraphernalia ready to hand?