自然不需要人类，人类需要自然。 - 每日文摘

具有天赋的人比常人多一样的需求，那就是学习、观察、研究、默想和实践的需求。因此，这也就是对闲暇的需求。

叔本华

有学问的傻瓜，要远比无知的傻瓜还要愚蠢。

伏尔泰

也许可以说，一个人对孤独的体验与他对爱的体验是成正比的，他的孤独的深度大致决定了他的爱的容量。反过来说也一样，人类思想史和艺术史上的那些伟大的灵魂，其深不可测的孤独岂不正是源自那博大无际的爱，这爱不是有限的人世事物所能满足的？

周国平

耐心是一种美德，我正在学习耐心。这是一门艰难的课程。

Patience is a virtue, and I'm learning patience. It's a tough lesson.

埃隆·马斯克

沉默并不总是缺席；有时它是最响亮的存在。

Silence is not always absence; sometimes it is the loudest presence.

阿卜杜勒拉扎克·古尔纳

A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.

经典是一本永远没有说完自己话的书。

伊塔洛·卡尔维诺

文学是反映人类最深欲望和恐惧的镜子。

"Literature is the mirror that reflects the deepest desires and fears of humanity."

弗里德里克·迈勒克

爱欲的回报并不来自被爱者，而来自爱者自身灵魂的美的攀升。

西蒙娜·薇依

人生从来没有蓝图，它有黑暗，有花火；有灾难，也有希望。

霍达

亲爱的，外面没有别人，所有的外在事物都是你内在投射出来的结果。

张德芬

Only when something of value to make the purpose of their lives have value.

只有在以某种有价值的东西做目的时，性命才有价值。

黑格尔

At that age， I'd take any excuse to make estimates and do minor arithmetic. I'd calculate our gas mileage -- figure out useless statistics on things like grocery spending. I'd been hearing an ad campaign about smoking. I can't remember the details， but basically the ad said， every puff of a cigarette takes some number of minutes off of your life: I think it might have been two minutes per puff. At any rate， I decided to do the math for my grandmother. I estimated the number of cigarettes per days， estimated the number of puffs per cigarette and so on. When I was satisfied that I'd come up with a reasonable number， I poked my head into the front of the car， tapped my grandmother on the shoulder， and proudly proclaimed， "At two minutes per puff， you've taken nine years off your life！"

在那样的年纪，我会找任何借口做些估测或者小算术。我会计算油耗还有杂货花销等鸡毛蒜皮的小事。我听过一个有关吸烟的广告。我记不得细节了，但是广告大意是说，每吸一口香烟会减少几分钟的寿命，大概是两分钟。无论如何，我决定为祖母做个算术。我估测了祖母每天要吸几支香烟，每支香烟要吸几口等等，然后心满意足地得出了一个合理的数字。接着，我捅了捅坐在前面的祖母的头，又拍了拍她的肩膀，然后骄傲地宣称，"每天吸两分钟的烟，你就少活九年！"