The rule of law is a necessary condition for the development of a modern state.

No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.

哲学是提出正确问题的艺术，并在未知中寻求智慧。

The music is my escape.

The truth about the world, he said, is that anything is possible. Had you not seen it all from birth and thereby bled it of its strangeness it would appear to you for what it is, a hat trick in a medicine show, a fevered dream, a trance bepopulate with chimeras having neither analogue nor precedent, an itinerant carnival, a migratory tentshow whose ultimate destination after many a pitch in many a mudded field is unspeakable and calamitous beyond reckoning.