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我们生活在人类历史上思想与价值观发生革命性变化的时代。在这样的时代背景之下，我们每个人都必须在内心找到生活中应遵循的理念、信仰与理想。只有找到并恪守这些理想，我们才能克服这个时代中每个人都会面临的危机。
We are living in one of those periods in human history which are marked by
recolutionary changes in all of man's ideas and values. It is a time when every
one of us must look within himself to find what ideas, what beliefs, and what
ideals each of us will live by. And unless we find these ideals,and unless we
stand by them firmly, we have no power to overcome the crisis in which we in our
world find ourselves.
I believe in people, in sheer, unadulterated humanity, I believe in
listening to what people have to say, in helping them to achieve the things
which they want and the things which they need. Naturally,there are people who
behave like beasts, who kill,who cheat, who lie and who destroy. But without a
belief in man and a faith in his possibilities for the future, there can be no
hope for the future, but only bitterness that the past has gone.
I believe we must, each of us, make a philosophy by which we can live.
There are people who make a philosophy out of believing in nothing. They say
there is no truth,that goodness is simply cleverness in disguising your own
selfishness. They say that life is simply the short gap in between an unpleasant
birth and an inevitable death. There are others who say that man is born into
evil and sinfulness and that life is a process of purification through suffering
and that death is the reward for having suffered.There are others who say that
man is a kind of machine which operates according to certain laws, and that if
you can learn the laws and seize the power to manipulate the machine, you can
make man behave automatically to serve whatever ends you have in mind.
I believe these philosophies are false. The most important thing in life is
the way it is lived,and there is no such thing as an abstract happiness,an
abstract goodness or morality, or an abstract anything,except in terms of the
person who believes and who acts. There is only the single human being who lives
and who, through every moment of his own personal living experience, is being
happy or unhappy,noble or base, wise or unwise, or simply existing.
The question is: How can these individual moments of human experience be
filled with the richness of a philosophy which can sustain the individual in his
own life?Unless we give part of ourselves away,unless we can live with other
people and understand them and help them,we are missing the most essential part
of our own human lives. The fact that the native endowment of the young mind is
one of liberalism and confidence in the powers of man for good is the basis of
my philosophy.And if only man can be given a free chance to use his powers, this
philosophy will result in a boundless flow of vital energy and a willingness to
try new things,combined with a faith in the future.
There are as many roads to the attainment of wisdom and goodness as there
are people who undertake to walk them.There are as many solid truths on which we
can stand as there are people who can search them out and who will stand on
them. There are as many ideas and ideals as there are men of good will who will
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发表于 2016-7-10 11:34:49