Only those who lie in the pit forever will not fall in.

It means that if a person has no lofty goals, no pursuit of his own, and only looks at the vested interests in front of him, then he will lose the opportunity to fall. In a sense, falling into the pit is also a kind of growth and progress.

This sentence was said by Hegel.

One night, Thales, an ancient Greek philosopher, saw the sky clear and observed the stars on the grass. He looked up at the sky and walked slowly. Unexpectedly, a deep pit appeared in front of him. As soon as he stepped on it, he fell like a stone. When he realized it, his body was already in the water. Although the water only flooded his chest, it was two or three meters away from the road. He couldn't get out or get up, so he had to shout for help.

Terez was rescued from a puddle by passers-by. He stroked his injured body and said to passers-by, "It's going to rain tomorrow!" " "Passers-by smiled and shook his head and walked away, telling Thales' prediction as a joke.

The next day, if it rains, people admire Thales very much Some people don't think so. They said, "Thales knows things in the sky, but he can't see things under his feet."

Two thousand years later, the German philosopher Hegel heard this story of Thales and said a famous saying: Only those who lie at the bottom of the pit forever and never look up at the sky will not fall into the pit.

Related content explanation:

Thales, an ancient Greek thinker, scientist and philosopher, was born in Mile, the capital of Ionia, and founded the earliest school of philosophy in ancient Greece-Miletus School (also known as Ionian School). One of the seven sages of ancient Greece, the first thinker with a name in the history of western thought, is called "the father of science and philosophy". Thales was the first natural scientist and philosopher in ancient Greece and the West. Thales' students include anaximander and Anaximenes.

He was the first to ask, "What is the origin of the world?" This philosopher who initiated the "ontological turn" in the history of philosophy was called "one of the seven sages of Greece" and "the ancestor of philosophy and science" by later generations, and was recognized as "the first person in the history of western philosophy" by academic circles. As the father of western philosophy, Thales' thought influenced philosophers such as Heraclitus.