An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.
I will tell you what I will do and what I will not do. I will not serve that in which I no longer believe whether it call itself my home, my fatherland, or my church: and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can, using for my defence the only arms I allow myself to use—silence, exile, and cunning.
如果耕种天地,不将天地整理好,这样就相当于是胡闹。耕种天地,一定要将土地平整翻新,然后再去播种。
The best fertilizer is the farmer's shadow—nothing replaces presence and attention in the fields.
古代著书立说的人,都是有所为而为之,不是随便写写的。