谈哲学

一个人喜欢哲学还是不喜欢哲学是天生的，和性格和爱好有直接联系，就象有人喜欢音乐，有人喜欢数学一样，能否学得进去，学出一点名堂出来，天资起决定的作用。哲学一词来于古希腊，字面上就是热爱智慧两个词，定义我看到很多人，博士也好，硕士也好，知识很多，智慧却很少，跟哲学似乎永远无缘的架势。对某一个学科的学习，虽然最后拿到所以我们可以说，一个人或者本来就是或者永远不是哲学家。

The youth who is capable of becoming a philosopher will be distinguished among his fellows as just and gentle, fond of learning, possessed of a good memory and a naturally harmonious mind.

Solitude - 孤独

No one talks better about solitude than Thoreau. Making friend with oneself is a mission of life, sooner accomplished the better. We have to be alone if we want to enjoy ourselves to the utmost.  

I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. -- Thoreau

I was never less alone than by myself. --Edward Gibbon

Content thyself to be obscurely good.
When vice prevails,
And impious men bear away,
The post of honor is a private station. --Joseph Addison

Can you enjoy being alone? If you can't, it's probably a sign that you aren't able to discover quality in your own character. Put another way, you have low self-esteem, a sense of feeling unworthy and undeserving of your own company.

One of the pleasantest thing in the world is going a journey; but I like to go by myself. I can enjoy society in a room; but out of doors, nature is company enough for me. I am then never less alone than when alone. --William Hazilitt

I must desire solitude if I dare to exist out of my own primal sources and thus to enter into the deepest communication.

The yardstick for a human being is how long and to what degree he can bear to be alone, devoid of understanding with others. A man who could bear being alone during a whole lifetime, and alone in decisions of eternal significance, is farthest removed from the infant and the society-person who represent the animal definition of a human being. --Kierkegaard

分析起来，孤独感的出现，很多时候并不是因为身边缺乏人的存在，而基本上是内心恐惧或空虚的一种反应，跟周围环境并没有什么太大的联系。有时候，闹市和喧哗反而会给人带来强烈的孤独感，而世上最孤独的人往往就是那些整日生活在人群当中的人。孤独当然跟性格有关，有的人天生喜欢清静，有的人天生喜欢热闹，但是真正的孤独感跟性格没有关系。

风景依旧人已不同

Familiarity breeds contempt. 熟悉的地方不但没有风景，有时还会引起反向的情绪。凡所难求皆绝好，一旦到手又平常，人是喜欢新奇的动物，获取和竞争是人的天性，也是生存的手段，所以人们日常生活中的重点多放于此。咎于注意力的有限性，如果没有经过特殊的学习和经历，没有有意识地强化训练自己，随便一个人是没有时间也不会特别去想已有之物的价值。Stoics有一个让人们学会珍惜的办法：幻想自己突然失去了身边非常熟悉的一样东西，亲人也好，财物也好，环境也好，然后分析自己对其之反应。这个办法也许会帮助我们重新评估什么对我们来说重要或不重要。