1. For example, if you admire an ancient pine, a high mountain, or a clear water, the image you see is no longer the true nature of the pine, mountain, or water, but a humanized one. Everyone has different tastes, so everyone's enjoyment of pines, mountains, and water is also different. "Listening to the Sound of Rain with Fallen Leaves"

2. Darwin once said in his autobiography that he was quite fond of literature and music when he was a child, but when he was in his prime, he abandoned literature and music because he was studying biology. When he gets older, he no longer finds poetry interesting. Interest must be cultivated in youth, and it will wither after the normal season. "Twelve Letters to Youth"

3. If you know how to deal with friends, you will know how to deal with others; if you know how to deal with others, you will know how to be a good person. If a person is deficient in his friends, not only will his life not be happy, but it will never be good. "Dialogue with Beauty"

4. When reading a novel, you only see the story but not its poetry, which is like seeing a flower stand and forgetting the flowers on it. "On Reading Poetry and the Cultivation of Taste"

5. As far as the theory of things is concerned, in the practical and scientific world, things gain meaning through their relationship with other things. When they are isolated and insulated, they gain meaning. None of them are meaningful; but in the aesthetic world, it can be isolated and insulated, but it can show value in itself.

6. You cannot be lazy, careless, or be easily complacent due to illusions caused by whims. Literature is a difficult thing. You can only work hard, innovate, and constantly pursue your thoughts, feelings, and With the refinement and consistency of language, you will gradually reach the perfection of art. "Taking Words and Chewing Words"

7. Human thoughts and language are gradually changing from simplicity to richness. The characteristics of a type of essays are simplicity and meaning. Therefore, ancient people were particularly good at this aspect. Modern people have to write a For those who wrote a book, ancient people only needed a few words to get rid of the problem. "Talent and Cultivation"

8. Human knowledge is advancing day by day. It goes without saying that if you don't work hard to keep up, you will fall behind. What is particularly important is to develop the habit of reading and to find an interest in learning. If you don’t have a normal hobby or something that you can put your mind on in your spare time, you may be tempted by bad habits when you leave school to do things in the future. "Twelve Letters to Youth"

< p>9. Everyone complains about their poor memory, but no one complains about their poor judgment. "Talent and Cultivation"

10. Life is inherently a broader art, and everyone's life history is his own work.

11. The practical attitude takes goodness as its highest goal, the scientific attitude takes truth as its highest goal, and the aesthetic attitude takes beauty as its highest goal.

12. There is probably no group of animals in the world that is more withdrawn and lonely than Chinese university professors and students.

13. The happiest people in the world are the ones who understand best.

14. The door of literature is wide open. Slow people mistakenly think that it is tightly closed and dare not ask about it; smart people mistakenly think that they are born inside the door and do not need to explore. They were all equally idle and equally shut out. "Talent and Cultivation"

15. Literature uses words to express thoughts and emotions. If there is ambiguity in the words, it means that the thoughts have not been thorough and the emotions have not been condensed. On the surface, chewing words seems to be just weighing the weight of words, but in fact it is adjusting thoughts and emotions. "Talent and Cultivation"

16. Literature and art are the same as dreams, they are desires wearing masks to escape consciousness inspection. "Talking about Beauty"

17. The morality of asking the heart is better than the morality of asking the reason, so the emotional life is better than the rational life.

18. I admit that genetic and environmental influences are very important, but I believe that neither of them can fully explain genius. "Talking about Beauty"

19. I am not afraid of stupid people, nor are I afraid of people who are too smart. It's just that it's really hard for me to have to talk to people who are uninteresting. You don't need to talk too much to interesting people, just stay silent and understand them, and then you can feel the supreme happiness among friends. Maybe you feel the same way sometimes?

20. Art is supposed to make up for the shortcomings of life and nature. If the highest purpose of art is only to wonderfully portray life and nature, then since we already have life and nature, why would we need art? "Speechless Beauty"