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逛到一個倡導環保、協助人們改變自己、改變生活讓世界更好的國外網站，看到一些很有意思的句子，摘錄記下來，偶爾回味想想，嗯，還真是富涵人生智慧的哲理啊。


"Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it.
Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
Begin it now"
—Goethe 歌德


“Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.”
—Arthur Schopenhauer 叔本華


“All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.
All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom.”
—Albert Einstein

愛因斯坦說，所有的宗教信仰、藝術、科學，都是同一棵樹的分枝，這些熱望都會促使人想要提升生命質感，而非只是軀體上的存在而已，它們也將引導每個個體更接近獨立與自由。

我覺得，這或許就是教育的本質吧

讓學生從各種生活、人文與科學領域裡，去發現去認識自我，進而更接近愛因斯坦所謂的freedom--真正的自由。


"Trend is not destiny."趨勢不等同命運
—Rene Dubois

"Unless we change our direction, we are likely to end up where we are headed."
—ancient Chinese proverb 想不出來 是哪一句諺語啊?


"To understand a system you need to understand the system it fits into."
—Howard Odum


“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do.
So throw off the bowlines.
Sail away from the safe harbor.
Catch the trade winds in your sails.
Explore. Dream. Discover."
—Mark Twain 馬克吐溫


“Find something you love to do and you'll never have to work a day in your life.”
—Harvey Mackay


“Washing one's hands of the conflict（袖手不管衝突）between the powerful and the powerless means to side with（支持） the powerful, not to be neutral”.
— Paulo Freire

這句話，很棒，簡直在說，在人群社會、政治選舉、或是國際社會等等環境，若我們面對不公不義或有爭議之事，卻還噤聲漠然，袖手旁觀，那不是公平中立啊，那是強勢者的幫兇。

"The world is dangerous not because of those who do harm, but because of
those who look at it without doing anything."
—Albert Einstein

"Not to dream boldly may turn out to be simply irresponsible."
—George Leonard

"Remember your humanity and forget the rest."
— Albert Einstein and Bertrand Russell

"Freedom and poverty are incompatible."
—Karl Marx 馬克思


“If we don't create our future, our past will create it for us.”
—Martin Brossman

“ Science is not about control. It is about cultivating a perpetual condition of wonder in the face of something that forever grows one step richer and subtler than our latest theory about it. It is about reverence, not mastery.”
—Richard Powers


“The formulation of the problem is often more essential than its solution”
—Albert Einstein

"Change comes from committed minorities."（堅定的少數）
—Hanna Arendt