活着就是对意外持开放态度。

The ability to imagine counterfactuals is what distinguishes humans from machines.

没有什么比一个没有什么可失去的人更危险的了。

The first fruit of this imagination - and the first lesson of the social science that embodies it - is the idea that the individual can understand his own experience and gauge his own fate only by locating himself within his period, that he can know his own chances in life only by becoming aware of those of all individuals in his circumstances.