2013年3月4日星期一

Maybe it's time for me to do something when people feel tired of their life.

" When a man is tired of London he is tired of life, for  there is in London all that life can afford."
                                                                                                                  ------  Samuel Johnson
What is the this sentence real meaning?

It remained me of the Happiness survey that i mentioned in the early journal. People live in big city feel less happy than people live in the same city and countryside.

As a designer, hoping her works based on the real life and can also be useful in the daily life.

So, i need to push myself in this crowed place.

LONDON:
"Sir, if you wish to have a just notion of the magnitude of this city, you must not be satisfied with seeing its great streets and squares, but must survey the innumerable little lanes and courts. It is not in the showy evolutions of buildings, but in the multiplicity of human habitations which are crowded together, that the wonderful immensity of London consists."

LONDON; SCOTLAND
Johnson: "The happiness of London is not to be conceived but by those who have been in it. I will venture to say, there is more learning and science within the circumference of ten miles from where we now sit, than in all the rest of the world." Boswell: "The only disadvantage is the great distance at which people live from one another." Johnson: "Yes, Sir, but that is occasioned by the largeness of it, which is the cause of all the other advantages." Boswell:"Sometimes I have been in the humour of wishing to retire to a desart." Johnson: "Sir, you have desart enough in Scotland."

LONDON:
"A country gentleman should bring his lady to visit London as soon as he can, that they may have agreeable topicks for conversation when they are by themselves."
Boswell: Life

LONDON; Stimulation
I mentioned to him that I had become very weary in a company where I heard not a single intellectual sentence, except "that a man who had been settled ten years in Minorca was become a much inferiour man to what he was in London, because a man's mind grows narrow in a narrow place." Johnson: "A man's mind grows narrow in a narrow place, whose mind is enlarged only because he has lived in a large place: but what is got by books and thinking is preserved in a narrow place as well as in a large place. A man cannot know modes of life as well in Minorca as in London; but he may study mathematicks as well in Minorca."
Boswell: Life

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