Chinese philosopher (circa 551-478 BC)

Usage examples of confucius.

According to that, the Analects were compiled by the disciples if Confucius coming together after his death, and digesting the memorials of his discourses and conversations which they had severally preserved.

We cannot therefore accept the above account of the origin of the Analects,-- that they were compiled by the disciples of Confucius.

Confucius as teaching his disciples important lessons from the manner in which he buried his mother, and having a design to correct irregularities in the ordinary funeral ceremonies of the time.

Confucius was practising ceremonies with his disciples, we are told, under the shade of a large tree.

Confucius had to mourn the death of another of his disciples, one of those who had been longest with him, the well-known Tsze-lu.

Lord 1, began the practice of conferring honourary designations on Confucius by imperial authority.

I specify these two subdivisions, because they embrace the Works of schools or sects antagonistic to that of Confucius, and some of them still hold a place in Chinese literature, and contain many references to the five Classics, and to Confucius and his disciples.

The Chinese students who aspire to honors spend years in verbally memorizing the classics-- Confucius and Mencius--and receive degrees and public advancement upon ability to transcribe from memory without the error of a point, or misplacement of a single tea-chest character, the whole of some books of morals.

It is enough to recall the names of Moses, Buddha, Confucius, Socrates, Paul, Homer, David.

Ardath did not know it, of course, he had not awakened to find Moses, Confucius, Socrates, Galileo, Newton, and a dozen others.

And to this primeval soil of his being in later years he returned, after long wanderings through both the physical world and the world of thought, which carried him through Russia and Spain, India and China, Africa and Arabia, and during which the spirits of Homer and Dante, Buddha and Confucius, Nietzsche and Bergson were his guides.

In the liquid amber within the ivory-porcelain, the initiated may touch the sweet reticence of Confucius, the piquancy of Laotse, and the ethereal aroma of Sakyamuni himself.

On the other hand, Confucius with his numerous disciples aimed at retaining ancestral conventions.

Sakyamuni, Confucius, and Laotse once stood before a jar of vinegar--the emblem of life--and each dipped in his finger to taste the brew.

The matter-of-fact Confucius found it sour, the Buddha called it bitter, and Laotse pronounced it sweet.