Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence.

外交是战争的延续，只不过用别的手段而已。

Every book is a journey, and every journey changes you a little.

The very shaping of history now outpaces the ability of men to orient themselves in accordance with cherished values. And which values? Even when they do not panic, men often sense that older ways of feeling and thinking have collapsed and that newer beginnings are ambiguous to the point of moral stasis.