In the realm of physics, we are not just observers but also creators of the reality we seek to understand.

政治系统对生活世界的殖民越多，就越会破坏交往理性的条件。

The fundamental impulse that sets and keeps the capitalist engine in motion comes from the new consumers' goods, the new methods of production or transportation, the new markets, the new forms of industrial organization that capitalist enterprise creates.

我每天提醒自己一百遍，我的生活，不管内在或是外在，都是以他人(包括活着的和逝去的)努力的成果为基础。所以我必须尽力奉献自己，希望能以同等的贡献，来回报长久以来从他人身上所获得的一切。