1. There are two things. The more deeply and persistently I think about them, the admiration and awe they arouse in my soul will become more and more timeless. One is the vastness and splendor above our heads. The starry sky is the lofty moral law in our hearts. They confirmed to me that God is above me and in my heart.

2. Human beings are the measure of all things.

3. The busier we are, the more strongly we feel that we are alive and the more aware we are of the existence of our lives.

4. Conscience is an instinct to judge oneself according to moral principles. It is not just an ability, it is an instinct.

5. To judge beauty, one must have a cultivated mind.

6. Work is the best way to make life happy.

7. Living without a goal is like sailing without a compass.

8. I am not teaching you philosophy, but teaching you how to think philosophically.

9. When love needs me, I am not qualified to enjoy it. When I need love, it leaves me.

10. Rationality holds its own principles in one hand, studies and experiments based on that principle in the other, and goes to nature.

11. I am lonely, I am free, I am my own emperor.

12. Being angry is punishing yourself for the mistakes of others.

13. Honesty is better than all wisdom, because it is the basic condition of wisdom.

14. Shyness is some kind of secret of nature, used to restrain the desire to indulge. It obeys the call of nature, but is always in harmony with goodness and virtue.

15. If you don’t learn humor and fun, people will be too miserable.

16. If you want to achieve great things, you must start when you are young.

17. Activities or sports are the mentors of human health.

18. A person cannot be sentenced to slavery, he can only consider himself a slave.

19. Philosophy cannot be taught. Philosophy is always the career of thinkers.

20. Morality is first required to control oneself.

21. There are three things that help ease the hard work of life: hope, sleep and laughter.

22. If you have knowledge, then you have foresight; if you have foresight, then you have the ability to do it.

23. Beauty is a symbol of moral goodness.

24. Man is the ultimate goal of creation in the world, because man is the only existence in the world that can form the concept of purpose, and can use it from a large number of things that are formed with purpose. For his reason, it constitutes a system of purposes.

25. If there is no sufficient reason to refuse a child's request, he should be satisfied; if there is a reason not to agree to such a request, he should not be allowed to cheat. Once you say no, don't change.

26. The reason why the sea is great is that in addition to its beauty, magnificence and magnanimity, it also has a self-purifying function.

27. Those who are born great smile at impermanence.

28. A genius is a person who creates his own rules.

29. Suicide is abominable because God forbids it; God forbids suicide because it is abominable.

30. The best enjoyment is work.

31. A nimble pigeon separates the air and flies freely. When it feels the resistance of the air, it may imagine that it will fly more briskly in a vacuum.

32. Morality is indeed not a dogma that guides people on how to make themselves happy, but a doctrine that guides people on how to deserve happiness.

33. Having a direct interest in natural beauty... is always a sign of a kind heart.

34. People, in fact, all rational beings, exist because they are an end in themselves, not just tools for this or that will.

35. This awe-inspiring concept of "personality" makes us notice that our behavior does not conform to it, and thus dampens our self-esteem. We clearly perceive the sublimity of our nature; this idea is natural and obvious even in the most ordinary aspects of human reason. Anyone who knows a little bit of shame will sometimes find that he can tell a harmless lie to get rid of some disgusting behavior. Or even seek some kind of benefit for his lovely and respectable friend, but he just because he was afraid of secretly despising it, and he never lied after all? As long as an upright person abandons his duties, he can escape from a certain miserable situation, and the reason why he is able to persevere without any trouble is not because he realizes that in this way he can set an example, maintain human dignity, respect it, and can reflect inwardly without feeling guilty. Aren't you afraid of conscience rebuke?

36. All our knowledge begins with sensibility, then enters intelligence, and finally ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.

37. The purpose of education is to make people become human beings.

38. Respect is always only given to people, but never to things.

Things can arouse in us affection, and if they are animals (such as horses, dogs, etc.), even love; they can also arouse fear, such as an ocean, a volcano, but they never arouse respect in us Come. ... Fontenelle said: Although my body bows before noble people, my heart does not bow. I can also add: If I see with my own eyes a humble civilian who has a good moral character and feels ashamed of himself, then I must pay tribute to him in my heart, whether I like it or not, and no matter how arrogant I am, I will pay tribute to him. He dared not ignore my high position.

39. Anyone who does not immediately feel disgusted when encountering immoral things, and does not immediately feel joy when encountering good things, has no sense of morality, and such a person has no conscience. Anyone who does something immoral and is only afraid of being sentenced, who does not blame himself for his bad behavior, but is frightened by the thought of painful consequences, has no conscience, but only the appearance of conscience. However, anyone who is aware of the immorality of the act itself, regardless of the consequences, has a conscience.

40. One of the most complex tasks of education is to combine the compulsion to obey the law with educating children to be good at using their own free power. As long as children do not do anything harmful to themselves or others, they should be allowed freedom of action and should not be forced to change their wishes. Let children understand that they can only achieve their own goals by providing others with the possibility to achieve their goals.

41. We cannot expect kings to philosophize or philosophers to become kings, and we cannot hope so, because holding power will inevitably corrupt rational free judgment. But neither the king nor the kingly people (who rule themselves according to equal laws) should make such philosophers disappear or silence them, but should let them speak openly; which would illuminate the cause of both. Indispensable, and because such philosophers by their nature do not engage in intrigues and cliques for personal gain, they will not be suspected of being slandered by propagandists.