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寻找自己的理念、信仰与理想  

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我们生活在人类历史上思想与价值观发生革命性变化的时代。在这样的时代背景之下，我们每个人都必须在内心找到生活中应遵循的理念、信仰与理想。只有找到并恪守这些理想，我们才能克服这个时代中每个人都会面临的危机。
We are living in one of those periods in human history which are marked by recolutionary changes in all of man's ideas and values. It is a time when every one of us must look within himself to find what ideas
what beliefs
and what ideals each of us will live by. And unless we find these ideals
and unless we stand by them firmly
we have no power to overe the crisis in which we in our world find ourselves.
I believe in people
in sheer
unadulterated humanity
I believe in listening to what people have to say
in helping them to achieve the things which they want and the things which they need. Naturally
there are people who behave like beasts
who kill
who cheat
who lie and who destroy. But without a belief in man and a faith in his possibilities for the future
there can be no hope for the future
but only bitterness that the past has gone.
I believe we must
each of us
make a philosophy by which we can live. There are people who make a philosophy out of believing in nothing. They say there is no truth
that goodness is simply cleverness in disguising your own selfishness. They say that life is simply the short gap in beeen an unpleasant birth and an inevitable death. There are others who say that man is born into evil and sinfulness and that life is a process of purification through suffering and that death is the reward for having e are others who say that man is a kind of machine which operates according to certain laws
and that if you can learn the laws and seize the power to manipulate the machine
you can make man behave automatically to serve whatever ends you have in mind.
I believe these philosophies are false. The most important thing in life is the way it is lived
and there is no such thing as an abstract happiness
an abstract goodness or morality
or an abstract anything
except in terms of the person who believes and who acts. There is only the single human being who lives and who
through every moment of his own personal living experience
is being happy or unhappy
noble or base
wise or unwise
or simply existing.
The question is: How can these individual moments of human experience be filled with the richness of a philosophy which can sustain the individual in his own life?Unless we give part of ourselves away
unless we can live with other people and understand them and help them
we are missing the most essential part of our own human lives. The fact that the native endowment of the young mind is one of liberalism and confidence in the powers of man for good is the basis of my if only man can be given a free chance to use his powers
this philosophy will result in a boundless flow of vital energy and a willingness to try new things
bined with a faith in the future.
There are as many roads to the attainment of wisdom and goodness as there are people who undertake to walk e are as many solid truths on which we can stand as there are people who can search them out and who will stand on them. There are as many ideas and ideals as there are men of good will who will hold them in their minds and act them in their lives.