Man is not logical and his intellectual history is a record of mental reserves and compromises. He hangs on to what he can in his old beliefs even when he is compelled to surrender their logical basis.
人类并不是逻辑的,他的智力历史是心理储备和妥协的记录。即使在被迫放弃逻辑基础时,他仍然坚守他在旧信仰中能够坚持的部分。
To be aware of the idea of social structure and to use it with sensibility is to be capable of tracing such linkages among a great variety of milieux.
What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.
I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You're doing things you've never done before, and more importantly, you're doing something.
"The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly—that is what each of us is here for."
A good sentence should have a kind of tension in it.
"A writer's duty is not to provide answers, but to ask the right questions that provoke thought and reflection."
怎样的人,他才敢如此指责自己的错误呢?