能知足者,天不能貧;能無求者,天不能賤;能外形骸者,天不能??;能不貪生者,天不能死;能隨遇而安者,天不能困;能造就人才者,天不能孤;能以身任天下后世者,天不能絕。
能經(jīng)常感到滿足的人,上天不能使其淪落貧窮;能夠做到不貪求的人,上天不能使其卑賤;能將軀體看作身外之物的人,上天不能使其患??;能夠做到不貪戀生命的人,上天不能使其死亡;能夠做到隨遇而安的人,上天不能使其困頓;能積極獎掖后進(jìn)、培養(yǎng)人才的人,上天不能使其孤立;能挺身而出,為天下所有人以及子孫后代造福請命的人,上天不會使其陷入絕境。
A good novel tells us the truth about its hero, but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
一本好小說告訴我們關(guān)于其主人公的真相,而一本壞小說告訴我們關(guān)于其作者的真相。
I will tell you what I will do and what I will not do. I will not serve that in which I no longer believe whether it call itself my home, my fatherland, or my church: and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can, using for my defence the only arms I allow myself to use—silence, exile, and cunning.
藝術(shù)與生活之間的界限應(yīng)該是模糊的。
Complexity is the enemy of execution—keep solutions simple.
The concrete artist strives to express the spiritual in the most precise and objective form possible.
The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false.