Bai Yansong’s famous sayings and philosophy

1. Human beings are animals that like to gain rationality through emotional means. ——Bai Yansong

2. Youth is the most confusing and anxious period in life, intertwined with despair, hope and challenges. ——Bai Yansong

3. Many years ago, there was a Chinese intellectual who left his motherland, thinking that he would become a tree without roots. A few months later, he walked into a foreign library and saw "A Dream of Red Mansions", "Water Margin" and "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" among the classics in the library... He cried bitterly in the dim space full of old books. He suddenly felt safe and free. Isn't this China? I didn't leave it. ——Bai Yansong

4. With your back against a big tree, don't think that you are the big tree. ——Bai Yansong

5. When everyone in the world regards * as ideal, sophistication as maturity, numbness as profundity, cowardice as stability, and glibness as wisdom, it can only be said that the bottom line of this society has been penetrated. So you are not qualified to say that my bravery is reckless, my persistence is extreme, my pursuit of truth is ignorant, and my passion is childish. ——Bai Yansong

6. We can be short of money, but not immoral; we can make mistakes, but not break promises; we can fall, but not kneel; we can seek fame, but not steal it; we can be low, but not degenerate; we can relax, but not indulge; we can be vain , but cannot be hypocritical; can be ordinary, but cannot be mediocre; can be romantic, but cannot be dissolute. ——Bai Yansong

7. Direction is a more important pursuit than speed. ——Bai Yansong