Chapter 10 Miscellaneous metaphors

In a familiar field, I stood in a place trampled by ruthless footsteps. As far as the eye could see, mature crops were densely packed, erect and upright, with full ears.But suddenly, I saw clusters of colorful flowers, with slender leaves in the colorful flowers, growing there leisurely, looking very beautiful, and thinking about it again, what's the use of them?They don't bear fruit, they're just weeds that have survived because no one has eradicated them.Of course, in such a vast field, some wild flowers are difficult to detect.It is a symbol of poetry and art, and in the life of society it is refined, useful, and not quite fruitless, but it is no different from the wild flowers in the field.

There are really beautiful scenery in the world, but the images of people seem vulgar compared with them, let’s just leave them alone! Flies should be said to be a symbol of impudence and recklessness.All animals avoid people, and flee before people get close to them, but flies are about to land on people's noses. Two Chinese people living in Europe, when they first walked into the theater gate, one studied its stage equipment and immediately explained its working principle; the other immediately wanted to understand the plot regardless of the language barrier .From these two people, you will understand what an astronomer is and what a philosopher is.

Wisdom that only stays in theory but cannot be put into practice is like a rose with two petals, which is gorgeous in color and rich in fragrance, but leaves seeds after withering. Yes, all roses have thorns, but not all roses have thorns. An ordinary apple tree, slim and graceful, full of silver flowers.Behind the apple tree is a tall and straight fir, with a slightly dark tapered head raised high. "Look at the splendid flowers all over my body. There are tens of thousands of them," Apple said to the fir tree. "What you can compare with me is your dark green needles?" "Yes, Fir replied, "However, when winter comes, you have nothing to show off, but I am still the same."

Once, when I was collecting specimens under an oak tree, I found a small sapling growing in a patch of tall and low grass, which was dark green with lush green leaves.When I touched it, it said firmly: "Leave me alone, I am not suitable to be your specimen, I am not like these grasses that only have one year of life endowed by nature, I am a young oak tree. " To those who have made a profound impact, living among the masses in childhood, youth, or adulthood, or even their entire lives, seems small and ordinary.But if he were to start his own business, he would never die with the masses.Those who cherish time, time will be tolerant to him.

When a person flies into the sky in a balloon, he does not feel that he is rising, but that the ground is sinking. Only by feeling the profound truth can one understand it. Your estimate of a person's size is often influenced by the distance that exists between you and him.However, if you also take into account his physical or mental state, there must be two opposite situations.When you look at a person from a distance, you will feel that he is small, but at the same distance, you will feel that another person is tall. The God of Nature adorns each of her creations with beauty, like a soft and fragrant powder cream that grows from the skin of pears or plums.Painters and poets have spared no effort to pursue this beauty, and express it in their works, and dedicate it to us, so that we can appreciate it at our leisure.We are intoxicated with this beauty long before we come to know life itself.Once this beauty of nature is seen later, it is gone, because the artist has exhausted it, and we have enjoyed it too.In fact, the world is often presented in such a crude form that it is unattractive and even repulsive.Let us find this beauty ourselves!Maybe this just means that we don't need to enjoy this beauty in a large amount and hastily. There shouldn't be such subtle and perfect pictures, nor should there be such perfect poems. Everything should be observed with our own eyes, and those darlings of nature are not Without seeing it this way, they do not have a foretaste of the joys of beauty with the help of art, nor do they prematurely capture the beauty of life.

All around the Cathedral of Mainz, so densely packed are the houses that surround the cathedral that it is almost impossible to find a place from which to have a panoramic view of it, which may be the origin of all the great or beautiful things in the world. symbol.The church is supposed to be a place for religious ceremonies, but people later use it for purposes that have nothing to do with the service. People flock from all directions to try to get alms and relief from the church. They hinder the function of the church and destroy it. Without the influence of the church, there is nothing to be surprised at, because of scarcity, insufficiency, people grab everything that can satisfy personal desires, and without exception, even those that exist for themselves and not for people's needs. The same is true of truth and beauty.

In this way, a special explanation and demonstration is made for public institutions, which, regardless of size, rich or poor, and regardless of when they were built and on which lands they are built, can maintain and promote human knowledge and, so to speak, enable human beings. Intellectual achievements that have become exalted are thus assisted.Wherever these institutions may be situated, men are quick to approach them in the hope of pursuing that particular end, and these men are indeed tempted by desire to try to steal the benefits which belong to all, and thus satisfy their vulgar, vile In fact, there are such liars in every field of knowledge.They change their faces at any time according to different environments, but in fact, they know nothing about knowledge, and they only want to get the superficial knowledge, which is to serve their own selfish and despicable purposes.

The hero seems to be the mighty Samson, and the strong man is always deceived by the crowd, until he loses his last patience, he will die with the crowd, or, like Gulliver in Lilliputian, be deceived by countless people. The villain fell to the ground. A mother asked her children to read Aesop's fables, hoping to educate and enlighten them.But shortly afterwards, they brought the book back, and the older child (he was more mature than the other children) expressed his opinion: This is not the book we read at all, it is too naive and too stupid, For children of our age, no one would believe that foxes and wolves can talk. This book is really not suitable for us to read.

In these young hopefuls, we can see the progressive rationalists of the future. On a cold winter day, a group of porcupines huddled together to keep warm, and when the quills on their bodies hurt each other, they immediately dispersed, but the cold weather forced them to huddle together again. separated again.After going back and forth like this, they finally know that they should not be too far apart, but they can't squeeze together.Likewise, the needs of society drive humans together like porcupines, but humans are naturally prickly and difficult, a trait that keeps humans repelled from each other.In the end, people find that the distance they can tolerate can only be moderate, and this is a polite gentleman's agreement.Only when this agreement is violated, is there a brutal warning, which is called, in an English admonition, "stay away from each other."Only in this way, although the need for mutual warmth is only weakly satisfied, it will not hurt each other.A man with warmth is always a misfit, and in so doing, neither stings nor makes others sting.