The heartbroken are originally guests of the soul. Those who cherish emotion best understand the ruthlessness of time; ruthless time has swept away how many emotional lives.
Snoring, farting, and belching—these sounds are considered foolish because they expose the animal aspect of human nature.
This is not strange. This philosophical martyr cannot be deified; the only way to commemorate him is to love wisdom, just as he did.
Thinking of so many good books in the world and knowing I will never have time to read them all, I cannot help but feel sorrowful.
The grapes have ripened, flowing with purplish-red blood.
The simplicity of human nature comes from nature. There are two types of human simplicity, corresponding to two types of nature. The first is primitive simplicity, corresponding to the primitive, material nature. The lives of children have just separated from this primitive nature, and uncivilized people still live within it; their human nature possesses this primitive simplicity. The second is transcendent simplicity, corresponding to the transcendent, spiritual nature. All spiritual greats, including great saints, philosophers, and poets, have established a communication with the transcendent nature through faith, contemplation, or experience; their human nature possesses this transcendent simplicity.