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The Beauty of the Ideas
The Beauty of the Ideas
"For me, a feature of scholarship that is generally more significant than relevance is the beauty of the ideas. I care that ideas have some form of elegance or grace or surprise - all the things that beauty gives you. ... Scholarship will always have an element of aestheticism, because scholars are obliged to advance beauty as well as truth and justice."
in the HBR interview, "Ideas as Arts"
(Harvard Business Review, Oct. 2006, p.84)
Being a Scholar
學而時習之、 不亦說乎。
有朋自遠方來、 不亦樂乎。
人不知而不慍、 不亦君子乎。
"Isn't it a pleasure to learn and to practice on occasion what one has learned? Isn't it a joy when a friend visits from a distant place? Isn't he a sage if he is not annoyed by not being recognized by others?"
In 論語 (The Analects) 1:1
On Sincerity
誠者、天之道也。
誠之者、人之道也。
誠者不勉而中、不思而得、從容中道、聖人也。
誠之者、擇善而固執之者也。
博學之、審問之、愼思之、明辨之、篤行之。...
人一能之己百之、人十能之己千之。
果能此道矣、雖愚必明、雖柔必強。
"Sincerity is the Way of Heaven. Trying to be sincere is the Way of Man. A person who is sincere is one who hits upon what is right without effort, apprehends without thinking, and is naturally and easily in harmony with the Way: Such a person is a sage. A person who tries to be sincere is one who chooses the good and holds fast to it. Study it extensively, inquire into it accurately, think over it carefully, sift it clearly, and practice it earnestly. … If another person succeeds by one effort, you will use a hundred efforts. If another person succeeds by ten efforts, you will use a thousand efforts. If this way is really followed, though stupid, one will surely become enlightened, and though weak, will surely become strong."
I Know Who I Am
"An earlier vision of humanity saw the essence of the human spirit as lying not in a logic of consequences but in a logic of appropriateness (or identity) by which a proper person does what is appropriate to being a proper person. Within a logic of appropriateness, sanity is achieved by fulfilling an identity in the face of adverse consequences, by loving the unlovable and trusting the untrustworthy. 'Yo se quien soy,' says Don Quixote, 'I know who I am.'"
in March, J. 1992. "The War Is over, the Victors Have Lost." Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, 2: 225-231. (p.226)
Exploiting Old Lessons and Exploring New Ideas
溫故而知新、 可以爲師矣。
"A man who reviews the old so as to find out the new is qualified to teach others."
In 論語 (The Analects) 2:11
Innovating More Each Day and Every Day
苟日新、 日日新、 又日新。
"If you truly innovate one day, then you would innovate every day and innovate more each day."
The Struggle
Say not the struggle naught availeth,
The labor and the wounds are vain,
The enemy faints not nor faileth,
And as things have been, things remain.
If hopes were dupes, fears may be liars;
It may be, in yon smoke concealed,
Your comrades chase e'en now the fliers—
And, but for you, possess the field.
For while the tired waves vainly breaking
Seem here no painful inch to gain,
Far back through creeks and inlets making,
Comes silent, flooding-in, the main.
And not by eastern windows only,
When daylight comes, comes in the light,
In front the sun climbs slow, how slowly,
But westward, look! the land is bright.
투쟁이 소용없다고 말하지 말라.
고난과 상처가 부질없으며
적은 약해지지도 쓰러지지도 않으며
여전히 세상은 달라지지 않는다고 말하지 말라.
희망이 어리석은 것이라면, 두려움은 거짓을 말한 것이리라.
보이지 않는 저 연기 속에서,
네 전우들은 지금도 도망치는 적군을 뒤쫓고 있다.
그리고 너 없이도, 승리를 거두리라.
지친 파도들이 헛되이 해변에 부서지며
안간힘을 쓰며 한 치 앞을 못 나가는 것처럼 보이지만
저 먼 뒤쪽으로, 개울과 작은 만으로는
바다가 소리 없이 밀려들고 있지 않은가.
햇살이 새벽녘에 찾아들 떄
햇빛은 동쪽 창으로만 스며드는 것이 아니다.
태양은 앞에서 천천히, 아주 천천히 떠오르지만
보라! 서쪽 대지도 환하게 빛나지 않는가.
Clough, A. H. 1855. "The Struggle." The Crayon, 2(5): 71–71. https://doi.org/10.2307/25527118
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