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.
这种想象力的第一个成果——以及体现它的社会科学的第一个教训——是个人只有将自己置于他所处的时代中，才能理解自己的经历并衡量自己的命运，只有意识到所有处于他这种境况的个体的机会，他才能知道自己的生活机会。
"The only way to deal with the unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion."
The beauty of mathematics lies not in its complexity but in its simplicity and the way it reveals hidden truths.
The proper study of psychology is the prediction and control of behavior.