You can reduce the annoyance of someone’s stupid belief by increasing your understanding of why they believe it.
It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure to the world.
The very definition of the real becomes: that of which it is possible to give an equivalent reproduction.
我四十而立之时,总觉得,当回顾我的一生,我会看到一系列的决定,一些是我仔细思考后作出的,一些是我无意而为的,还有很多是我根本无法掌控的。