The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding because to understand is to be free.
人类能够达到的最高活动是为了理解而学习，因为理解就是自由。
There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered.
"写作是一种反抗，是对遗忘的反抗。"
天赋是上帝赐予的，要谦卑；名声是别人给的，要感恩；自负是自己给的，要小心。
【译文】 孔子说：“我不是天生就有学问的，只是个喜欢读书、勤奋敏捷地追求知识的人。”