1. People despise each other and flatter each other. People each hope that they are higher than others, and they each prostrate themselves in front of others.
--Mark Aurelius' "Meditations"
2. Everyone is willing to follow blindly, as if the safest thing in the world is to disappear into the "majority". -- Li Juan " Winter Ranch "
3. A beggar will not be jealous of a millionaire, but he will definitely be jealous of a beggar with a higher income. --Russell
4. A person can always be kind to people he doesn't care about. -- Wilde
5. In days of stability, anyone can tell a few great truths. It is easy to advocate human rights and occupy the moral high ground. But when the storm comes, people panic and are no longer able to care about the so-called correctness, so they can only go with the flow. That's how people are. -- Kotaro Isaka " Golden Dreamland "
6. We have created a unique lifestyle: the rich are really particular about it, and the poor who have no money are about it. Life is like this, sinking and floating in a pond of stagnant water.
-- Lao She "Under the Red Flag"
7. People would rather care about the eating, drinking, eating and drinking of a crappy movie actor than understand the turbulent inner world of an ordinary person.
-- Lu Yao "The Ordinary World"
8. The terrible thing about "entertaining oneself to death" is not the entertainment itself, but that people gradually lose the ability to think seriously and rationally judge social affairs, and that they are cultivated by a frivolous cultural environment into rational illiterates who are ignorant and fearless without knowing it.
-- Neil Postman "Amusing Ourselves to Death"
9. People are hanging curtains
Don't peek
I'd rather be alone I have also hung one
Whether it is gorgeous or simple
If you don't bother to hang it, or are too lazy to hang it
you might as well just leave a naked window
However, you have to Respect other people’s curtains
-- Yang Jiang
10. Most of the interactions between people are superficial, or only on a relatively superficial level, communication is easy. Once you go deep, people become a maze of each other.
-- Shi Tiesheng
11. Many people think that they are thinking, but in fact they are just rearranging their own prejudices.
--William James
12. Prejudice can be said to be a holiday for the mind. It is a daily household item for people without ideas and a Sunday entertainment for people with ideas.
-- Qian Zhongshu "A Prejudice"
13. Few people will truly love others. People just want to get love by giving a little love. That is a kind of fishing.
--Zhang Fangyu's "Insights in Independence "
14. When I was young, I thought money was the most important thing, but now that I have grown up, I have discovered that this is really the case.
-- Wilde
15. Whether consciously or not, we are all extremely selfish. As long as we get what we want, we will think everything is fine.
-- James Salt "Light Years"
16. Lying is human nature, and most of the time we can't even be honest with ourselves. -- Ryunosuke Akutagawa "Rashomon"
17. A diploma is like the leaf on the lower body of Adam and Eve . It can hide shame and hide one's ugliness; a small square of paper can cover up a person's emptiness, ignorance and stupidity.
-- Qian Zhongshu's " Siege "
18. The brave are angry and draw their swords against the stronger;
The timid are angry and draw their swords against the weaker.
-- Lu Xun "Huagai Collection·Miscellaneous Feelings"
19. The reason why people speak with certainty is because they know too little.-- François Guizot
20. The masses have never really thirsted for the truth, and they will turn a deaf ear to evidence that does not suit their taste. Anyone who can provide them with illusions can easily become their master.
-- Gustave Le Pen "The Crowd"
21. Modern people believe that if they do not do things quickly, they will lose something - time, but people do not know what to do with the time they have, except to kill time in vain.
-- Fromm "The Art of Love"
22. Don't think that everyone in the world is concerned about your affairs. Do you think that everyone is staring at you? In fact, everyone has their own troubles, and no one cares about your worries.
-- Mo Yan "Frog"
23. What many people call maturity is just that the edges have been worn away by custom, and they have become sophisticated and practical.
-- Zhou Guoping
24. In universities, science students look down on liberal arts students,
Foreign language students look down on Chinese literature students,
Chinese literature students look down on philosophy students,
Philosophy students look down on Sociology students,
Sociology students look down on Education students,
Education students have no one they can look down on,
can only look down on the teachers in their own department.
--Qian Zhongshu's "Fortress Besieged"
25. The more thoughtful a person is, the more people with personality will be found. Ordinary people cannot see the difference between people.
-- Pascal
26. The biggest mistake of people is that they love to measure other things by their own preferences. -- Liu Liangcheng " A Village of One Person "
27. Most people in the world can't think with their own heads, and the more people who don't think, the less willing they are to listen to others. -- Haruki Murakami
28. We rarely trust people who are better than us and would rather avoid interacting with them. Instead, we often confide in people who are similar to us and share our vulnerabilities. We do not wish to correct our weaknesses, we only wish to receive compassion and encouragement. --Camus
29. Uneducated people are fooled by others because they are illiterate; educated people are fooled by printed matter because they are literate. -- Qian Zhongshu "Fortress Besieged"
30. Living is the rarest thing in the world. Most people just exist, that's all. --Wilde
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