The number one organ of ridicule, nowadays, is the newspaper. If you open the newspaper any day of the week, it's full of people who've messed up their lives. They've slept with the wrong person, taken the wrong substance, passed the wrong piece of legislation -- whatever it is, and then are fit for ridicule. In other words, they have failed. And they are described as "losers." Now, is there any alternative to this? I think the Western tradition shows us one glorious alternative, which is tragedy.

感受是行动的指南。

Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

人类认知存在着局限性。我们往往会根据有限的信息做出全盘的判断，这种倾向可能导致严重的误判。