"The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there."
The desire for recognition, the thymotic part of the soul, is the most fundamentally human part of the soul.
"The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes."
只有服从自然,才能控制自然。
The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love.
不幸的人,尤其在美国,如果人们遇见一些社会底层的人,他们被刻薄地形容成“失败者”,“不走运”和“失败者”中间有很大的差别,这表现了四百年的社会演变,我们对谁该为人生负责看法的改变,神不再掌握我们的命运,我们掌握自己的人生。