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Belief as a prerequisite for freedom

Preface: Hot Writings of Lawyers

Richard Baxter said: "We are often jealous of those who are above us. People who despise those who are inferior to us; covet other people's fame and wealth, or look at other people's poverty and embarrassment arrogantly and coldly. Seeing people with good looks arouses our lust; seeing people with disabilities triggers our lust. Our contempt..." We ourselves are our own biggest snare.

Circle Justice

As Kant said, morality does not teach us how to make ourselves happy, but teaches us how to make ourselves worthy of happiness.

Love is not about loving abstract concepts, but about loving specific people.

Burke, the pioneer of conservatism, warned us: "Hypocrisy likes lofty speculation best, because it never intends to cross the boundaries of speculation, and it can decorate itself solemnly and noble without paying any price. ”

All the flesh together, all the spirit together, and all their products, are inferior to the smallest act of charity. It belongs to a more infinitely sublime order.

What has been done will be done again; what has been done will be done again. There is nothing new under the sun.

It is often those kind wishes that bring humans into hell on earth. ——[Germany] Holderlin

Because of the truth, we are free to serve.

What is a role model

Some birds can never be locked up, because every one of their wings is covered with the glory of freedom. ——"The Shawshank Redemption"

Man is born free, but he is always in chains.

Russell’s unstoppable sympathy for human suffering kept him engaged in social activities. But he loves human beings, not specific people. Because the abstract human being is just a perfect concept, it is always lovely. The love of the concept only requires the investment of brain power, but the love of specific people requires the investment of real feelings. Every specific person is imperfect and despicable. The more one falls in love with abstract human beings, the more one detests truly concrete human beings.

The most painful thing in life is to keep working hard and never realize your dreams, and this is exactly the case in our lives. Many times, we have to face the reality that our ideals have failed.

“Life is a process of shattered dreams.”

“Everyone is building a temple in his own way – some of us work very hard to build a temple of peace The temple. We protest against the war, but in doing so, it seems that we are beating our heads against the wall, and it is completely futile - often we are alone, frustrated and confused." - "Martin Luther. "Gold" Autobiography

You should look down on yourself and never be arrogant.

Blessings that are freely received should also be freely passed on to others.

How to open up moral condemnation

Don’t wield moral power against others easily

The premise of the rule of law is the assumption of the corruption of human nature,... power Never should be fully trusted.

The first step in slashing at compatriots with a machete is hatred of foreigners

“No one is an independent island, isolated from the world. Everyone is part of the vast continent. . If the waves wash away a rock, Europe is lost like a corner of a cape, like a piece of your friend or your own territory. Every death is my sorrow, because I am a member of the human race. "Don't ask for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for you." - John Donne Downtrend.

"The brave are angry and draw their swords against the stronger; the timid are angry and draw their swords against the weaker." - Lu Xun

In any industry, if people believe that the strong are the If you are too big, it is impossible to truly abide by the rules, because the rules are only effective for the weak, and the strong will always jump outside the rules.