To Quantum（風量子）& Asunnysong:
By ≠paleink
駐筆回想思徘徊, 筆墨猶擲言流散。
中國大陸一日遊剛回來，看到你和asunnysong的探討與爭論。
本有許多話要說，可盤旋於腦海的問題很多，想把心上這一團錯綜複雜的思緒梳理清晰很難。
現在我竭力讓我的思路明白曉暢。
孤獨，變通，偏見
一切人事上的關係，不同的人都會有不同的看法，真正能跟自己心靈契合，相視而笑的人能有幾個？所以我們感慨說， [人生得一知己足矣]。我們的世界是瞬息萬變，與時俱進。變化快得多得，自己轉身看我的過去，我的境遇，心裏想想，[奇妙]兩字久久在腦際回想。朋友，姻緣，它們都是流動，突如其來，突然而去，我們不能扣留住[永久]，所以有人說[天長地久]，[與子偕老]，他們說永久，隻不過是厚道的在應景罷了。我們隻抱有這種信仰，隻能是自欺欺人。
不過能使人快樂，幸福的，我們仍應當珍惜。
真正美好的友誼和婚姻，都是自由的，是無所懼怕的，不因為沒有天長地久的理想妨礙我們樂觀，積極的態度，我們也仍
[意]在持久。
認識到[好]花不能長開，[好]景不能長在也許是一種可貴的認識或刺激，明白了美麗的脆弱，更嚐得珍惜的滋味。
人生就像朵玫瑰花，美麗有[刺]，雖有刺，而仍美麗。
所以在這變幻莫測的世界裏，也難有永恒的信仰和主義。把思想單一化，靜態化隻會讓自己處處碰壁。
但是,人思想的發展和修正似乎和人生的主線索密不可分。
羅素一生，追求真理，追求正義。
回顧他的人生走過的路，可以說，他的一生的確信守了自己的諾言。
‘The serious part of my life ever since boyhood has been devoted to two different objects which for a long time remained separate and have only in recent years united into a single whole. I wanted, on the one hand, to find out whether anything could be known; and, on the other hand, to do whatever might be possible toward creating a happier world. Up to the age of thirty-eight I gave most of my energies to the first of these tasks. I was troubled by skepticism and unwillingly forced to the conclusion that most of what passes for knowledge is open to reasonable doubt. I wanted certainty in the kind of way in which be found in mathematics than elsewhere. But I discovered that many accept, were full of fallacies, and that, if certainty were indeed discoverable in mathematics, it would be in a new kind of mathematics, with more solid foundations than those that had hitherto been thought secure. But as the work proceeded, I was continually reminded of the elephant upon which the mathematical world could rest, I found the elephant tottering, and proceeded to construct a tortoise to keep the elephant from falling. But the tortoise was no more secure than the elephant, and after some twenty years of very arduous toil, I came to the conclusion that there was nothing more that I could do in the way of making mathematical knowledge [indubitable]. Then came the First World War, and my thoughts became concentrated on human misery and folly. Neither misery nor folly seems to me any part of the inevitable lot of man. And I am convinced that intelligence, patience, and eloquence can, sooner or later, lead the human race out of its self-imposed tortures provided it does not exterminate itself meanwhile.
On the basis of this belief, I have had always a certain degree of optimism, although, as I have grown older, the optimism has grown more sober and the happy issue more distant. But I remain completely incapable of agreeing with those who accept fatalistically the view that man is born to trouble. The causes of unhappiness in the past and in the present are not difficult to ascertain. There have been poverty, pestilence, and famine, which were due to man’s inadequate mastery of nature. There have been wars, oppressions and tortures which have been due to men’s hostility to their fellow men. And there have been morbid miseries fostered by gloomy creeds, which have led men into profound inner discords that made all outward prosperity of no avail. All these are unnecessary. In regards to all of them, means are known by which they can be overcome. In the modern world, if communities are unhappy, it is often because they have ignorances, habits, beliefs, and passions, which are dearer to them than happiness or even life. I find many men in our dangerous age who seem to be in love with misery and death, and who grow angry when hopes are suggested to them. They think hope is irrational and that, in sitting down to lazy despair,
They are merely facing facts.
I cannot agree with these men. To preserve hope in our world makes calls upon our intelligence and our energy. In those who despair it is frequently the energy that is lacking…..
(Russell Autobiography, P725-726)
他的一生是以追求真理與至善為己任的。
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文如其人――文由心生，文字也許掩蓋思想
了解一個人最好的辦法，就是研讀他/她所有的著作，此外邊緣的旁門小道隻是給我們偷懶的思想找一個好的籍口休息休息。
我沒多過多少王小波的作品，所以我要談他和羅素的對比，隻會貽笑大方。
對於羅素的著作我也隻是一知半解，他的一生，共有上百部著作和兩千多篇文章，就是我不讀專業課，兩眼隻盯著他，一時半會也是讀不完的。
但是關注的焦點應在他的為學為人。思想休憩，瑣碎偏重，隻增添了和眾的鳴躁。
Quantum說，羅素是到過中國的卻同樣很失望的離開中國的，並寫下惡毒言語的。
您提到的這段話，我在羅素自傳中國行一章中，並未看到。
我願附上另一段他寫給Ottoline Morrel( Russell Autobiography, p370)：
Since landing in China we have had a most curious and interesting time, spent, so far, entirely among Chinese students and journalists, who are more or less Europeanized. I have delivered innumerable lectures – On Einstein, education and social questions. The eagerness for knowledge on the part of students is quite extraordinary. When one begins to speak, their eyes have the look of starving men beginning a feast. Everywhere they treat me with a most embarrassing respect.
。。。。
Apart from the influence of Europeans,
。。。。。
The Governor of Hu-Nan is the most virtuous of all the Governors of Chinese provinces, and entertained us last night at a magnificent banquet. Professor and Mrs Dewey were present; it was the first time I had met them. The Governor cannot talk any European language, so, though I sat next to him, I could only exchange compliments through an interpreter. But I got a good impression of him; he is certainly very anxious to promote education, which seems the most crying need of
最後一段的意思是：
湖南省省長是中國各省省長中最得高望重的一個，昨晚兒設宴招待了我們。杜威教授攜夫人也出席了此次宴會，這是我第一次與他見麵。無奈省長不會講任何歐洲語言，雖坐在他身邊，卻隻能通過翻譯相互致意。但是，我對他留有一個好印象，他很熱切地希望促進教育，似乎是中國當前最迫切的需要。我們因此明白，沒有教育的發展，很難悟到如何建立一個更完善的政府。換句話說，一個壞的政府在中國造成的災難不像在一個歐洲國家那麽嚴重，不過這也許是我的一個膚淺的印象，
須待時間的修正。
所以歲月是成熟，智慧的代價。
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孤獨的童年
Quantum：羅素對人類苦難感到無法忍受的憐憫之情，活得很老的；
越來越無聊的，很不孤獨的；
先來看一下羅素的童年吧
羅素幼年父母雙亡。他的母親和姐姐在羅素兩歲時，因患白喉而死亡。他的母親生前是一個女權運動的支持者，是一位生性正直，嚴肅；才思敏捷，富於機智，生氣勃勃，有創造精神和無所畏懼的女性。
接著，在他母親離開人間18個月後，他的父親也離他而去。父母雙亡，對於一個三歲的孩子，精神上的創傷無疑是巨大的。
在他自傳中：‘My father and mother were dead, and I used to wonder what sort of people they had been. In solitude I used to wander about the garden, alternately collecting birds’ eggs and meditating on the flight of time.”
我的父母都以過世,我常會想, 如果他們在世,會是什麽樣。在孤寂時，我常常一個人在花園裏徘徊，不是撿鳥蛋就是沉思於飛馳的時光。
幸喜上蒼有眼，羅素智識淵海，為人類社會的進步，為當代哲學和科學的發展，作出了卓越貢獻，一生為追求真理，為創造一個更幸福的世界做著至善的努力。直到彌離之際，羅素都是自己的理想的忠實實踐者:
--1961年，羅素已87歲。因組織靜坐示威，反對核軍備，被判七天監禁。
--最難能的是，1967年，已95歲高齡的羅素，仍精力充沛地投身於保衛世界和平的事業。密切關注羅素和平基金會資助的國際戰犯審判法廳的工作。
--他的床頭，掛著[Leibniz，G.W.& Frege, G]兩位德國哲學家的照片，他們對真理的追求，孜孜不倦的求知欲與羅素如影相隨。
他父母的英靈也地下安眠。
關於羅素的試婚的觀點，打了一大嗬欠，我們可否來日在論？：）
Quantum你我雖以接近而立之年，但少年的矜氣並未全消，讓你我全盤接收對方觀點都實為勉強。
我不喜應景，也不擅阿諛。
誠然，熱鬧，浮燥與清醒，深思無緣。如倘把羅素的著作讀上幾本（原著），對於我所讚你定能有所醒轉，也隻有在那些中心裏來考察羅素，也許更能平實地權衡他的為學為人的份量，你我的隔閡自然就會打通。Quantum的學識不淺，眼光不鈍，胸襟不窄。與你過招，生思補智。
與一個達觀的人共勉
西風敬上
2005-01-27
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