Darwin once said in his autobiography that he was good at literature and music when he was young, but when he was strong, he gave up literature and music because he studied biology. When he was old, he tried to amuse himself with poetry, but he couldn't find interest. Interest should be cultivated in youth, but it will fade after the normal season. Twelve letters to young people
If you know how to be friends, you will know how to be friends. If you know how to deal with people, you know how to behave. If a person lacks friends, his life is not only impossible to be happy, but also impossible to be beautiful forever. Dialogue with the United States
4. Reading a novel and seeing only the story but not its poem is like seeing a flower stand and forgetting the flowers on it. On Poetry Reading and Interest Cultivation
5. As far as things are concerned, in the world of practice and science, things get meaning by having relations with other things, but when they are isolated and insulated, they have no meaning; But in the aesthetic world, it can be isolated and insulated, but it can show its value in itself.
6. Don't be lazy, careless, and complacent easily because of a whim. Literature is a very difficult thing. Only through hard work, innovation, and continuous refining and consistency of thoughts, feelings and languages, will you gradually achieve artistic perfection. Chewing words
7. People's thoughts and language are gradually changing from simple to rich. Writing a casual essay is simple and meaningful, so the ancients were particularly good at it. Modern people want to write a book, and the ancients can do it in just a few words. Talent and accomplishment
8. Human knowledge is progressing day by day. It goes without saying that if you don't try to keep up, you will fall behind. It is particularly important to develop the habit of reading and find interest in learning. If you don't have a normal hobby and nothing you can trust in your spare time, you may be tempted by bad habits when you leave school to do things in the future.
9. Everyone complains about his poor memory, and no one complains about his poor judgment. Talent and accomplishment
10. Life is a broader art, and everyone's life history is his own work.
1 1. Practical attitude takes goodness as the highest goal, scientific attitude takes truth as the highest goal, and aesthetic attitude takes beauty as the highest goal.
12. There is probably no lonelier animal than the professors and students of China University.
13. The happiest person in the world is the one who can appreciate it the most.
14. The door of literature is open. Dull people mistakenly think it is closed and dare not care; A wise man mistakenly thinks that he was born under the door, so there is no need to grope. They are all equally lazy and locked out. Talent and accomplishment
15. Literature expresses thoughts and emotions in words. If there is ambiguity in the speech, it means that the thoughts are not thorough and the emotions are not concise. Chewing words, seemingly just considering the weight of words, is actually adjusting thoughts and emotions. Talent and accomplishment
16. Literature and art, like dreams, all wear masks to escape the desire of consciousness inspection. Talk about beauty
17. The morality of asking is better than that of asking, so the perceptual life is better than the rational life.
18. I admit that heredity and environment have great influence, but I believe that they can't fully explain genius. Talk about beauty
19. I've never been afraid of nerds or overly intelligent people in my life, but it's really difficult to talk to uninteresting people. You don't have to talk to interesting people, just keep silent and get the message, and you can feel the supreme happiness among friends. Do you probably feel the same way sometimes?
20. Art should make up for the defects of life and nature. If the highest purpose of art is only to understand life and nature, and we already have life and nature, how can we rely on art? Wordless beauty