Philosophy ⁽³⁾

Beyond inexhaustible truth there is no authority. And of truth, on the one hand, anyone may pursue it; on the other, no one may say he possesses the final truth. — Karl Jaspers Today I saw a joke. Someone asked on Zhihu: why is it…

Among the various philosophies of survival, the one I most esteem is sui yu er an—being at peace whatever one encounters. Whatever comes, one meets it calmly and takes it as a matter of course, unaffected by the outside world or by one's own lot.

Mr. Feng Youlan said that Western philosophy is a philosophy of negation, whereas Eastern philosophy is a philosophy of the negation of the negation. Eastern philosophy stands to Western philosophy as an elder to a youth: it is a philosophy of a higher order. This…