It means that if a person does not have lofty goals or his own pursuits, but only looks at the vested interests in front of him, he will also lose the opportunity to fall. In a sense, falling into a pit is also a kind of growth and progress.

This sentence was said by Hegel.

One night, the ancient Greek philosopher Thales saw that the starry sky was clear, so he observed the stars on the grass. He looked up at the sky and walked slowly. Unexpectedly, there was a deep pit in front of him. He stepped in the air and fell down like a stone. When he realized what he was doing, his body was already soaked in water. Although the water only reached his chest, it was still two or three meters above the road. He came out. I couldn't get up, so I could only shout for help.

Taylors was rescued from the puddle by a passerby. He stroked his body that was hurt by the fall and said to the passerby: "It will rain tomorrow!" The passerby smiled and shook his head and left, leaving Thales's body with his hands. Prophecies are told to others as a joke.

The next day, it rained, and people admired Thales very much. Some people disagreed, saying: "Thales knew things in the sky, but could not see what was under his feet." Two thousand years later, the German philosopher Hegel heard this story of Thales , said a famous saying: Only those who always lie at the bottom of the pit and never look up to the sky will not fall into the pit.

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Thales was a thinker, scientist, and philosopher in the ancient Greek period. He was born in the Ionian city of Miletus and created the earliest philosophy of ancient Greece. School is the founder of the earliest philosophical school in Greece, the School of Miletus (also known as the Ionian School). One of the Seven Sages of Ancient Greece, the first thinker whose name has been recorded in the history of Western thought, and is known as the "ancestor of science and philosophy." Thales was the first natural scientist and philosopher in ancient Greece and the West. Thales's students included Anaximander, Anaximenes and others.

He was the first philosopher to ask "What is the origin of the world?" and initiated the "ontological turn" in the history of philosophy. He was called "one of the Seven Sages of Greece" and "one of the Seven Sages of Greece" by later generations. "The founder of philosophy and science", he is recognized by academic circles as "the first person in the history of Western philosophy". The father of Western philosophy, Thales's ideas influenced philosophers such as Heraclitus.