【读书笔记】林语堂 -生活的艺术 01 wake up and live
[/en]I have often thought of formulas by which the mechanism of human progress and historical change can be expressed. They seem to be as follows:
Reality - Dreams = Animal Being
Reality + Dreams = A Heart-ache (usually called Idealism)
Reality + Humour = Realism (also called Conservatism)
Dreams - Humour = Fanaticism
Dreams + Humour = Fantasy
Reality + Dreams + Humour = Wisdom[/en]
[/cn]我时常想到一些机构公式，想把人类进步和历史变迁明确地表示出来。这些公式仿佛如下：
“现实”减“梦想”等于“禽兽”
“现实”加“梦想”等于“心痛”（普通叫做“理想主义”）
“现实”加“幽默”等于“现实主义”（普通叫做“保守主义”）
“梦想”减“幽默”等于“热狂”
“梦想”加“幽默”等于“幻想”
“现实”加“梦想”加“幽默”等于“智慧”[/cn]
先生写出了自己对各国人民的认识：
现三 梦二 幽二 敏一 等于英国人
现二 梦三 幽三 敏三 等于法国人
现三 梦三 幽二 敏二 等于美国人
现三 梦四 幽一 敏二 等于德国人
现二 梦四 幽一 敏一 等于俄国人
现二 梦三 幽一 敏一 等于日本人
现四 梦一 幽三 敏三 等于中国人
在一列国家里，中国最为现实也最缺梦想，没有之一，不知各位认同否？
[/en]Human society would be like an idealistic couple for ever getting tired of one place and changing their residence regularly once every three months, for the simple reason that no one place is ideal and the place where one is not seems always better because one is not there.[/en]
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