I tend to think that the longer you look at a thing, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real.
德行与天地相配的人才能称为皇帝
Reality is a question of perspective; the further you get from the past, the more concrete and plausible it seems—but as you approach the present, it inevitably seems more and more incredible.
"Memory is a strange thing, it doesn't work like I thought it did. We are so used to thinking of it as a camera or a tape recorder, but it's not like that at all. It's more like a painter, who adds and subtracts elements according to his own rules."
Chrome-free isn't enough; we need guilt-free.
The stock market is a device for transferring money from the impatient to the patient.