The essence of modernity is psychologism, the experiencing and interpretation of the world in terms of the reactions of our inner life and indeed as an inner world, the dissolution of fixed contents in the fluid element of the soul, from which all that is substantive is filtered and whose forms are merely forms of motion.

What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

幸福的秘诀，不是寻求更多发现，而是在成长中享受到细微的一种能力。

失去一个父母可以看成是一种不幸；失去双亲看上去就像是一种粗心了。

“智慧的真正标志不是知识，而是想象力。”