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Original |
Legge's
Translation |
Susuki's
Translation |
Goddard's
Translation |
| 1 |
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To know and yet (think) we do not know is the highest
(attainment); not to know (and yet think) we do know
is a disease.
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To know the unknowable, that is elevating. Not to know the knowable, that is
sickness.
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To recognize one's ignorance of unknowable things is mental health, and to be
ignorant of knowable things is sickness.
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| 2 |
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It is simply by being pained at (the thought of) having this disease that we
are preserved from it.
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Only by becoming sick of sickness can we be without sickness.
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Only by grieving over
ignorance of knowable things are we in mental health.
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| 3 |
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The sage has not the disease. He knows the pain that would be inseparable from
it, and therefore he does not have it. |
The holy man is not sick. Because he is sick of sickness, therefore he is not
sick. |
The wise man is wise because he understands his ignorance and is grieved over
it. |
