"If the gentlemen shall be pert ... She will give him such answer that he may clearly understand he is causing annoyance ... I would have her yield to her lover nothing but her spirit." - Baldessare Castiglione, Book of the Courtier (1571), for Thou truly faith in and face the PLATONIC love.
"Never attempt to explain the meaning of "Good" (Common English definition) to the Devil (A Rhetoric label and an absolute one), for the Devil would still twist and turn and make the "Good" "Evil" (Common English definition) anyway, because that is just their nature, that will never change absolutely." - A non-Rhetoric statement by Gnail I.E.W Hep Mailliw (2009).
"I think, therefore I am ... Any other claim about the world is doubtful." - Descartes; "We can know only ourselves with certainty for everything else could be an illusion ..." - Hep Mailliw -_-X
。。。心无挂碍，无挂碍故，无有恐怖，远离颠倒梦想 。。。
"Through the greatness of the universe which philosophy contemplates, the mind also is rendered great, and becomes capable of that union with the universe which constitutes its highest good." - Bertrand Russell from "The Problems of Philosophy"; Thou believed that intellectual contemplation and the love of wisdom is happiness, searching and attaining for MY "EUDAIMONIA" ...
"Lord, make me chaste, but not yet." A pert prayer to God by Saint Augustine. Thou, a non-Christian, do understand the connotation of wanting and yet not wanting to escape from the enslavement to sex ... as a young man ... -_-X
Avidya (Ignorance) is the source of our unhappiness and that Vidya (Wisdom) and Bodhi (Enlightenment) are our salvation. I have to agree to this Vedanta philosophy. -_-X
"The wise man delights in water, the good man delights in mountains. The wise move, the good stay still. The wise are happy, the good endure." - Confucius; To be wise or to be good, seemingly obvious ...
"To know how to be content is to avoid humiliation; to know where to stop is to avoid injury." - Lao Zi ; And very true, thou realised this can be applied to many walks of life and scenarios ...
If one properly understands the natural order of things, of which death is a part, then fear and mourning will no longer be necessary. One can "disperse emotion with reason". - Happiness of the Sage; (as compared to); "A passion dissolves when I can form a clear, distinct idea of it"-[Western] Spinoza's reason's control of emotions. East meet West, and thou shall be both logical and emotional for the "Golden Mean".
"Since all things in the Universe are constituted of 气, therefore men and all other things are but part of our great body ... I live, I serve the Universal parents and when death comes, I rest." - Western Inscription and the Neo-Confucianism and probably my philosophy right now ...
"What is rational is actual and what is actual is rational." - Hegel (A great Western Philosopher at least to me); [West Versus/Clashes East]; "Those who know do not say, those who say do not know." - The Book of 道 (道德经); --> Things that can be coherently and sensibly argued for can be proven and taken for real [VERSUS] the true nature of ultimate reality is almost unknowable and probably impossible to communicate.
"In the world, there is one purpose, but there are a hundred ideas about it; there is a single goal, but the paths toward it differ." - 汉书艺文志, 刘歆; the eclectic spirit of Chinese Philosophy, and the concept of diversity and yet sharing the general approaches - Eg: "Sageliness within and Kingliness without" which Confucianism and Taoism shares despite differences. Different but not so different afterall !!! -_-X
"I am struck by the large number of falsehoods I had accepted as true in my childhood" - Rene Descartes; Thou fully experience the same history as the great rationalist ...
"Words are but the images of matter, to fall in love with them is to fall in love with a picture" - Francis Bacon who pioneer and contribute new methods for Science, ("The Wisest, Brightest, Meanest of Mankind" - [Alexander Pope on him]); very true ... For our powerful brains interpret the meanings of words visually and sonically.
"I never let my schooling affect my education" -Mark Twain
Compels assent after the fact, but reveals nothing new; the idea that definitions advance knowledge is an illusion ....-_-X
"A man with self-control is a best with a mask." - Ardelus
Rationalistic thinkers were like spiders who spin their webs out of matter secreted inside their own bodies; their structures are impressive but everything comes from within, and lacks sufficient contact with external reality.While empirical thinkers, like ants, mindlessly collecting data but have only limited ideas about what to do with it. ... Hence knowledge is a form of discovery (even mindless one when one don't even define), and definitions (in a systematic Science term) is used as a form of epistemology. -_-X
Based on Mark Twain's statement.. schooling would be referring the act of attending an institution, in a presupposed purpose of acquiring knowledge... education would be the act of acquiring, retrieving and assimilating knowledge... Knowledge, discovered by both rational thinking and empirical observations, must both be processed together, to bring about a greater understanding... we could always take Einstein's thought experiments as a reference...
"Common sense is the best distributed commodity in the world. For every man is convinced he is well supplied with it" - Rene Descartes; Certainty is available in our knowledge of the world and to obtain it we just need to follow the "right" method, and the fairest of all, to build up impregnable Science that would give rock-hard, reliable knowledge -_-X.
"All beliefs must submit to being proved beyond doubt. I seek a philosophy that can establish knowledge on a guaranteed basis." - Rene Descartes ("Cogito Ergo Sum"), beginning of modern philosophy and which thou truly pursue on the ideals of the philosophy. -_-X
"All we can ever experience is the "Phenomenal" world, which may not be at all like the real "Noumenal" one. Only God can see that, as he is unrestricted by time and space and the limitations of the human mind." - Immanuel Kant, the first philosopher to show that neither Rationalists nor Empiricists got it right; Science and Religion need not conflict another ...
Hmm ... If all we can ever experience is the phenomenal (Things as they "appear") world, how can we be so confident about the existence of a nomenal (Things as they really "are") one? Hmm .....
"Logical positivism, far from being a foreign import, is just a radical restatement of traditional English Empiricism." - A.J Ayer in Language, Truth and Logic; The road to real knowledge is through Science, and no such thing as "Philosophical Knowledge"; Hm .... Though thou think that Science, a more discipline approach.
"路漫漫兮其修远兮，吾将上下而求索" - 陈家旭
"It is foolish to do with more what can be done with less. Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler." - William of Ockham (Nominalist), the principle of "Ockham's razor", that has highly influenced Science, if not philosophy itself (Unfortunately); Thou agree that the great truths and conclusions are usually simpler, it is indeed foolish to prefer a complicated answer to a simpler one. -_-X
I hope to embody a Child's innocence and purity, this Youth's apperance and energy, the "Uncle"'s maturity and adaptation to survive in the hostile society, and that Old man's wisdom and experience. -_-X (Does that make me a freak or a strange guy? If being strange means having the good of everything, I would rather be strange ...)
人在做，天在看！多行不义必自毙。因果循环。善有善报，恶有恶报。 -_-X
做中医伟人，开伤寒良方 - 陈明老师
Affairs of heart is always the hardest to tackle. It is like the strong roots attached deep to the heart; Lacking the right nourishment is painful and dangerous. The best way is to totally remove them. But once it attaches, it is so hard to remove them. So either you must have the right nourishment, or you will have to... suffer the agony while trying to find ways to remove them or getting the right one. -_-X
只要有心去驾船，船到桥头自然直。 有实力者无须惧出卖也！-_-X
满招损，谦受誉。末大必折，尾大不掉。-_-X
Everything else in the world can or may betray you except your own skills and efficiency. (So, from now on, thou shall fully focus on building both ...) -_-X
Do not take unrealistic shortcuts in life for you will have a cut in the short life. -_-X
The ultimate knowledge and the ultimate solution is to obtain/derive/deduce new methods, ways, ideas, techniques from something you know. -_-X
To realise the truth, the technique and the connection, you have to think as many possibilities as possible !!! -_-X
Quiet is the best place to think ... to ponder ... to be rationale ... -_-X
Sometimes it is the imperfection that makes a person perfect ... -_-X
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Friends for life!!!
Friendship forever and that is true,
Given to me and to you.
Memories more good than bad,
Even moments, happy and sad.
Support heightens when in tears,
Team together when in fear.
Sweet and sour, be these ways,
The tastes have reached the very last day.
Miles away can'...t keep us apart,
For we will always be in other hearts.
Make new friends, Keep the old!
Thou hence silver and thee forth gold !
Ameigo Para Slempre!
Friends for life, forever care!!!
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All small roads will eventually lead to main road. All main roads will eventually lead to Rome. -_-X
The ultimate test for the love of wisdom is to question and understand the very true meaning of the fabric of wisdom itself. For wisdom itself is dubitable ... -_-X
nanos gigantum humeris insidentes (Dwarfs standing on the shoulders of giants) - Bernard of Chartres(Uttered by Issac Newton). How true for humanity and us, the consecutive post-progeny should feel the gift for being the dwarfs that have stood on the weathers, fruits, bloods and knowledge of our ancestors. For this, w...e should really appreciate - From thou, a dilettante. -_-X
Is the ugly (Real) truth that ugly (detrimental)? People often do not like to admit or listen to the ugly truth and follow up with rationale decision and action. People who identify the ugly truth is not liked, because spreading the ugly truth is tantamount to being the "anti-" guy ...
Euphemism and forestalment are the solutions of the ugly truth to antagonism, but beware of a paradox of pretentious flattery. -_-X
Life can be unfair, but you can choose not to be unjust to yourself and others. Life can be very cruel, but you can choose not to be callous to yourself and others. By choosing correctly, a happy and fulfilled life accomplished and humanity be forth. -_-X
Mistakes of the past is for my experience of the present and future. The experience of the yesterday is meant for the win for today and tomorrow. -_-X The win of the history is told by generations of the progeny.
吾欲恬淡虚无，必有则改过，无则加免 ！！！
不管是黑猫还是白猫，只要能捉到老鼠的猫，就是一只好猫！
冰心薄，人心更薄。华山险，人心更险。
天有不测风云，人有旦夕祸福。
Yesterday is a History, Tomorrow is a Mystery, Today is a GIFT, this is why they call it the PRESENT ...
You don't try to fail, but you fail to try !!!
There is no dominance, but cultural and diversity.
You always have a choice to do good or to minimise cruelty.
Hard Work without believing yourself is worthless !!!
