My World View wrote:
What a strange fate for those of us who are bound to die! Each of us will only make a short stay in this world; What is the purpose, but there is no way to know, although sometimes I think I feel something about it. However, there is no need to think deeply, as long as we can understand from our daily life: people live for others-first of all, for those people, our happiness depends entirely on their joy and health; Secondly, for many people we don't know, their fate is closely linked with us through the bond of sympathy. I remind myself hundreds of times every day that my spiritual life and material life are based on the labor of others (including the living and the dead), and I must try my best to repay what I have received and what I am still receiving. I strongly yearn for a simple life. And often find themselves taking up too much work of their compatriots and unbearable. I think the division of classes is unreasonable, and it is based on violence in the end. I also believe that a simple and honest life is beneficial to everyone, both physically and mentally.
I don't believe that human beings will have that kind of freedom in the philosophical sense at all. Everyone's behavior is not only forced by the outside world, but also adapted to the inherent necessity. Schopenhauer said, "Although a man can do what he wants, he can't want what he wants." This maxim has given me real enlightenment since my youth; When my life and that of others are facing difficulties, it always comforts us and is a constant source of tolerance. This kind of experience can relieve the sense of responsibility that is easy to make people discouraged, and also prevent us from taking ourselves and others too seriously; It leads to a philosophy of life that gives humor its due place.
from an objective point of view, I always think it is foolish and ridiculous to investigate the meaning or purpose of a person's own existence or that of all living things. But everyone has some ideals, which determine the direction of his efforts and judgment. In this sense, I have never regarded ease and pleasure as the purpose of life itself-I call this ethical basis the ideal of a pigsty. It is goodness, beauty and truth that light my way. If there is no cordial feeling between like-minded people, if there is no concentration on the objective world-the object that can never be achieved in the field of art and science, then in my opinion, life will be empty. I always feel that the vulgar goals that people strive for ── property, vanity and luxurious life ── are contemptible.
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The best experience we can have is the experience of mystery. It is the basic feeling of sticking to the birthplace of real art and real science. Whoever can't experience it, who has no curiosity and no sense of surprise, is a walking corpse, and his eyes are blurred. It is this mysterious experience-although mixed with fear-that produces religion. We realize that there is something that we can't see, and feel the deepest reason and the most splendid beauty that can only approach our hearts in its most primitive form-it is this understanding and this emotion that constitute real religious feelings; In this sense, and only in this sense, I am a person with deep religious feelings. I can't imagine that there is such a God who rewards and punishes his creation and has the will that we experience in ourselves. I can't and don't want to imagine that a person will continue to live after physical death; Let those fragile souls, out of fear or ridiculous solipsism, cherish this idea! I only want to be satisfied with the eternal mystery of life, to be satisfied with perceiving the magical structure of the existing world, to glimpse its fragments, and to grasp the part of reason displayed in nature with sincere efforts. If so, even if I only understand a tiny part of it, I will be satisfied.
-these are the paragraphs inside. It is slightly different from the translation in the book I read. I found it online. But the general idea is the same.
The minds of scientific masters are really extraordinary. They were born to explore the world and change it. And we are just born to feel the world and experience the ordinary. We are tired of fame and fortune, but Einstein doesn't take money seriously at all. I learned in high school textbooks that he used checks as bookmarks. This story once made me deeply sigh!
it's not fake, it's true! At Princeton, he used a check for $1,5 as a bookmark, but he didn't know it when he lost it. Someone asked him to give a speech and gave him 1 dollars a minute, but he said he didn't need money. There is also his peculiar simple theory:
There are many sages before the master, so it is worth thinking about how to shine your own light in the bright Milky Way. Because, this life is too short ...