Function:

1. Lead to the central argument.

2. Use famous quotes to attract readers' attention and make them attractive.

The French thinker Pascal has a famous saying: "Man is a reed with thoughts." What he means is that human life is as fragile as a reed, and anything in the universe can kill people. . However, even so, human beings are still much nobler than anything in the universe, because humans have a soul that can think. Of course we cannot and should not deny the necessity of physical life, but the nobility of man lies in his spiritual life. As human beings, there is no distinction between high and low. Only people as souls can differentiate between nobility and mediocrity, and even nobility and despicability due to the huge differences in their inner worlds.

"The Nobility of Man Lies in the Soul" is selected from the 2004 issue 3 of the Chinese Loose-leaf Anthology and was written by contemporary writer and scholar Zhou Guoping. It expresses his pursuit of soul life and does not focus on material life.

At the same time, this article is also selected from Lesson 7, page 28, of Chinese language in the second grade of the revised Beijing curriculum.