我们必须通过文学来理解我们的历史。

Is there any relief from some of thesepressures that I've been outlining? I think there is. I just want to turn to afew of them. Let's take meritocracy. This idea that everybody deserves to getwhere they get to, I think it's a crazy idea, completely crazy. I will support any politician of Left and Right, with any halfway-decent meritocratic idea; I am a meritocrat in that sense. But I think it's insane to believe that we will ever make a society that is genuinely meritocratic; it's an impossible dream.

存在即是理性。

In the silence of the land, you can hear the voices of our ancestors.

人们都保有原本的视觉，天下就不会有毁坏；人们都保有原本的听觉，天下就没有忧患；人们都保有原本的智慧，天下就不会有迷惑；人们都保有原本的品德，天下就没有邪恶。

Reality is not what happens to us, but what we do with what happens to us.