中国人不是不讲形而上学,但不像西方人抽象,而往往用诗化的意境把形而上学的理论说得很空灵,真正的意义固然不易捉摸,却不至于像西方形而上学那么枯燥,也没那种刻舟求剑的宗教味儿叫人厌烦。西方人对万有的本原,无论如何要归结到一个神,所谓God [神,上帝],似乎除了God [神,上帝],不能解释宇宙,不能说明人生,所以非肯定一个造物主不可。好在谁也提不出证明God [神,上帝]是没有的,只好由他们去说;可是他们的正面论证也牵强得很,没有说服力。他们首先肯定人生必有意义,灵魂必然不死,从此推论下去,就归纳出一个有计划有意志的神!可是为什么人生必有意义呢?灵魂必然不死呢?他们认为这是不辩自明之理,我认为欧洲人比我们更骄傲,更狂妄,更ambitious [野心勃勃],把人这个生物看做天下第一,所以千方百计要造出一套哲学和形而上学来,证明这个“人为万物之灵”的看法,仿佛我们真是负有神的使命,执行神的意志一般。在我个人看来,这都是vanity [虚荣心]作祟。东方的哲学家玄学家要比他们谦虚得多。除了程朱一派理学家dogmatic [武断]很厉害之外,别人就是讲什么阴阳太极,也不像西方人讲God [神]那么绝对,凿凿有据,咄咄逼人,也许骨子里我们多少是怀疑派,接受不了太强的insist [坚持],太过分的certainty [肯定]。
每一个他者都是完全的他者。
真正的挑战不是建造一个便宜的房子,而是建造一个居住成本低的房子。
按惯例,甜是甜的,苦是苦的,热是热的,冷是冷的,颜色是颜色;但实际上只有原子和虚空。
I used to walk down the street like I was a star... I want people to walk around delusional about how great they can be - and then to fight so hard for it every day that the lie becomes the truth.
只要你能坚持一步一步往前走,你几乎可以度过任何难关。
Life is too short to wake up in the morning with regrets.
Always listen to your audience. They will tell you what they want, if you're willing to hear.
用音乐记录生活,用生活丰富音乐。
我不怕被人批评,最怕的是没人理我。
There are other reasons --There are other reasons why it's perhaps harder now to feel calm than ever before. One of these, and it's paradoxical, because it's linked to something that's rather nice, is the hope we all have for our careers. Never before have expectations been so high about what human beings can achieve with their life span.
Civil law is what each people establishes for itself.