Carlos Casaneda

A man, any man, deserves everything that is a man's lot--joy, pain, sadness and struggle. The nature of his acts is unimportant as long as he acts as a warrior. Since death is going to overtake us regardless of anything. To seek the perfection of the warrior's spirit is the only task worthy of our temporariness, and our manhood.

其实，一个人干什么并不重要，生活的方式有千万种，好与不好只是相对而言。酸甜苦辣是一定的。 重要的是，他是不是以一个勇士的身份出现，敢不敢于面对生活的挑战，他是不是在驾驭生活，还是被生活所驾驭。如果一个人缺乏精神的话，不管他其它方面多么富有，他的生活都不会稳定。

John Muir

We all flow from one source-soul. - John Muir

What we dread the most

From Father Brown Crime Stories
Page vii: What we dread most, is a maze with no center. We ourselves are the most unknowable labyrinths. We hide ourselves as though we were "scene shifters"; we build our houses, dress our bodies, speak our speeches to conceal our real natures, but in the act of hiding, we are revealed.

To Be Understood

Emerson: "to be great is to be misunderstood."

Truth Is Made

William James of Pragmatism: "Truth is not a stagnant property. Truth is made, just as health, wealth and strength are make, in the course of experience."

What Is College For?

What the college was, or should be -what Meiklejohn hoped to make Amherst into - was a place to be thought of as "liberal," that is, "essentially intellectual": "The college is primarily not a place of the body, nor of the feelings, nor even of the will; it is, first of all, a place of the mind." Introducing "the boys" to the intellectual life led for its own sake, would save them from pettiness and dullness.

There are those among us who will find so much satisfaction in the countless trivial and vulgar amusements of a crude people that they have no time for the joys of the mind. There are those who are so closely shut up within a little round of petty pleasures they that have never dreamed of the fun of reading and conversing and investigating and reflecting.

A liberal education would rescue boys from stupidity, its purpose being to draw from that "reality-loving American boy" something like "an intellectual enthusiasm." But this result could not be achieved, Meiklejohn added, without a thorough reversal of the curriculum: "I should like to see every freshman at once plunged into the problems of philosophy," he said with enthusiasm.

Virtue

苏格拉底的故事
斯宾诺莎的故事
亚里士多德的观点
Marcus Aurilus 的故事

道德所代表的是人的东西，西方的道德一词，virtue, 与excellence同义，也就是最好的、最优秀的意思。那么做一个有道德的人，也就是做一个最好的人。那么什么又是最好的人呢？
道德是人的表现，道德是人的能力，道德也包含着人的价值，每个人都崇尚道德高尚的人，这种价值也许不能用物质来衡量，但是其自身的价值是不容否认的。         

礼貌，忠诚，谨慎，节制，勇敢，正义，正直，公平，大方，同情，仁慈, 感恩，谦虚，容忍，简单，纯洁，温柔，孝顺，忠信，幽默，仁爱

一个完美的人是一个淋漓尽致的人，一个能做为人的正面标志的人，一个把人最美的精神和面貌充分体现出来的人，一个离圣贤最近离兽性最远的人。