文学的作用是使世界更加复杂,而不是简化它。
"The role of literature is to make the world more complex, not to simplify it."
颜渊感叹地说:“老师的学问越仰望越觉得高耸,越钻研越觉得深厚;看着就在前面,忽然却在后面。老师步步引导,用知识丰富我,用礼法约束我,想不学都不成。
翻译:贤明的君主和将领,之所以一出兵就可以战胜敌人,成就的功业超过一般人,是因为他们能事先探明敌情。事先探明敌情,不能使用占卜的手段获取,不可用类比的方法获取,也不可推验日月星辰运行来获取。一定要取之于人,取之于了解敌情的人。
永远不要忘记你来自哪里,因为那会让你的音乐保持真实。
He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.
Light is the soul of architecture.
To write is to give shape to the chaos.