There is a Japanese saying I recall once having heard, of the five stages of man's growth. "At ten, an animal; at twenty, a lunatic; at thirty, a failure; at forty, a fraud; at fifty, a criminal." And at sixty, I would add (since by that time one will have gone through all this), one begins advising one's friends; and at seventy (realizing that everything said has been misunderstood) one keeps quiet and is taken for a sage. "At eighty," then said Confucius, "I knew my ground and stood firm."
-- Joseph Campbell in Myths to Live By
- Re: 浜虹敓鐨勪竷涓樁娈�posted on 07/19/2004
failure at 30 ? For many people life stops at 40, they are buried behind minivan, kids, family ... It should not be the case anymore.
I suggest everyone gets another PhD after 40. - Re: 浜虹敓鐨勪竷涓樁娈�posted on 07/19/2004
姗姗老师好，祝贺姗姗开讲人生。
学生提个问：
对一个天才，人生阶段论还有没有意义呢？
因为所有的天才生下来就是九十岁的老头老太了。
第一声哭就带着万古回音。
同意饮者的话，活到老学到老。 - posted on 07/19/2004
He he, a nice suggestion. I was thinking about same thing. :)
I am reading Damassio's Looking for Spinoza, the author seems to me an excellent researcher and an able thinker, though his writing's not too attactive at times. Many of his ideas are inspiring which more than compensate the writing style. Still in the middle of the book.
failure at 30 ? For many people life stops at 40, they are buried behind minivan, kids, family ... It should not be the case anymore.
I suggest everyone gets another PhD after 40. - posted on 07/19/2004
华 wrote:
姗姗老师好，祝贺姗姗开讲人生。
对一个天才，人生阶段论还有没有意义呢？
因为所有的天才生下来就是九十岁的老头老太了。
第一声哭就带着万古回音。
俺不是老师，是学生。咱们都永远是人生的学生，一起探讨吧。
今天看书上的那段话，觉得很好笑，抄来和大家同乐。我在想我那些四十岁到七十岁的朋友们，原来一个个都是骗子、是罪犯、是啰嗦的过来人、是沉默的智人，而我们这拨人是个失败。有些道理啊！还好，这三十岁是人生最低谷，过了就好了。
上礼拜好像又莫明其妙地到神秘的地方转了一圈，胡言乱语一番（易经啥的），请大家别介意。这几天没有灵感了，说不出什么妙语来。
关于天才的人生阶段，我想，华说的在某种程度上是对的：有的天才一辈子都生活在自己的世界中，超越了时空。但天才不是绝对的，在天分之外的方面，他们也是人，也要经历人的历程。其实每个人都是不同的，都有自己特殊的生命空间，只是多数人由于各种各样的原因，忽视对自己的认识，而去追随社会和他人的认可。我们看旁人的时候，也常常没有时间和耐心去欣赏他们的特别之处，而只是简单地把他们归结成这类或那类的人。这样做，可能会把自己孤立起来。 - Re: 浜虹敓鐨勪竷涓樁娈�posted on 07/19/2004
呵呵呵，让我再赞一声：阿姗有脑子！ - posted on 08/14/2004
Shakespear mentioned that a man has seven ages as follows:
All the world's stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have all their exits and their entrances.
And one man in his time play many parts,
His acts being seven ages.
--"As You Like It"
Maya the hostess of this Web cafe also talked with me about her conception of seven ages in life. She seemly made the division of life from the angle of ethical development. A woman in her adolescence may steal underwear from the department store but when she is more mature she may no longer do shoplifting.
There is a discrepency between the biological age and the psychological age. Many men are biologially mature but psychologically immature.
- posted on 08/17/2004
好笑。有道理。
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This History of every major Galactic Civilization tends to pass through three distinct and recognizable phases, those of Survival, Inquiry and Sophistication, otherwise known as the How, Why and Where phases.
For instance, the first phase is characterized by the question, "How can we eat?", the second by the question, "Why do we eat?" and the third by the question, "Where shall we have lunch?"
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