第11句见：Day11
《哲学的故事》的第12句：序言中的第1段第12句。

Introduction
On the uses of Philosophy
There is a pleasure in philosophy, and a lure even in the mirages of metaphysics, which every student feels until the coarse necessities of physical existence drag him from the heights of thought into the mart of economic strife and gain. Most of us have known some golden days in the June of life when philosophy was in fact what Plato calls it, “that dear delight”; when the love of a modestly elusive Truth seemed more glorious, incomparably, than the lust for the ways of the flesh and the dross of the world. And there is always some wistful remnant in us of that early wooing of wisdom. "Life has meaning,”we feel with Browning—“to find its meaning is my meat and drink.” So much of our lives is meaningless, a self-cancelling vacillation and futility; we strive with the chaos about us and within; but we would believe all the while that there is something vital and significant in us, could we but decipher our own souls. We want too understand; “life means for us constantly to transform into light and flame all that are or meet with”; we are like Mitya in The Brothers Karamazov —“one of those who don’t want millions, but an answer to their questions”; we want to seize the value and perspective of passing things, and so to pull ourselves up out of the maelstrom of daily circumstance. We want to know that the little things are little, and the big things big, before it is too late; we want to see things now as they will seem forever—"in the light of eternity.” We want to learn to laugh in the face of the inevitable, to smile even at the looming of death.We want to be whole, to coördinate our energies by criticizing and harmonizing our desires; for coördinated energy is the last word in ethics and politics, and perhaps in logic and metaphysics too. "To be a philosopher," said Thoreau, "is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live, according to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity, and trust.” We may be sure that if we can but find wisdom, all things else will be added unto us. "Seek ye first the good things of the mind," Bacon admonishes us, "and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt." Truth will not make us rich, but it will make us free.
浙江大学版本： “首先去追求思想中那些美好的内容吧，”培根告诫，“其余的部分即使不是接踵而至，也会在失去时不觉可惜。”

解析

这句话引自培根的《论学术的进步》（De Augmentis Scientiarum）。它是基于《学术的进展》（The Advancement of Learning, 1605）随后更长的拉丁文版本。在这两本书里，他阐述了一项知识改革的计划。也是因为这个，我们把培根说成“实验科学”的鼻祖。
断舍离，关注某点，其它就随缘。

1、**"Seek ye first the good things of the mind,” **
ye： old-fashioned + literary = you

I promised your father a bit of money for ye before ye were born.你出生前我曾答应过你父亲给你一点钱。

2、**Bacon admonishes us, **
admonish： to tell or urge (someone) to do something

Again he admonished the boy to throw more brush upon the fire. 他再次告诫男孩在火上扔更多的刷子。

3、"and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.”其余不是会自动来，就是失去也没觉得
Either or要么……要么……

“首先寻求你头脑中的善，”培根告诫我们，“其余要么自动会来，要么失去时也没觉得。”