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XXXVII. Let that of Heraclitus never be out of thy mind, that the death of earth, is water, and the death of water, is air; and the death of air, is fire; and so on the contrary. Remember him also who was ignorant whither the way did lead, and how that reason being the thing by which all things in the world are administered, and which men are continually and most inwardly conversant with: yet is the thing, which ordinarily they are most in opposition with, and how those things which daily happen among them, cease not daily to be strange unto them, and that we should not either speak, or do anything as men in their sleep, by opinion and bare imagination: for then we think we speak and do, and that we must not be as children, who follow their father's example; for best reason alleging their bare καθότι παρειλήφαμεν; or, as by successive tradition from our forefathers we have received it.
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白话
要常记赫拉克利特的话:土死变水,水死变气,气死变火,反过来也一样。也要记住那些不知道路通向哪里的人:理性管理着世间万物,人最内在、最日常地与之打交道,可偏偏最常与它作对;每天发生在他们身边的事,他们每天仍觉得奇怪。我们不要像睡着的人那样,凭意见和空想说话做事——梦里我们也以为自己在说在做。也不要像孩子那样照搬父亲的例子,遇事只会说“我们祖祖辈辈都是这样传下来的”。做法是:遇事先用理性核对,而不是靠习惯、传言或睡梦般的想象。
上下文
赫拉克利特是古希腊以“万物皆流”著称的哲学家。马可·奥勒留借他的元素转化说,提醒人别对日常变化大惊小怪。
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今天你做某个决定时,依据的是自己的理性判断,还是“历来如此”的习惯?
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