Monads are indivisible entities, the basic elements that constitute the world.
恐惧可以是一个有用的信号，但它不应该是我们唯一倾听的声音。
The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.
That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.
The city is the greatest invention of mankind.
真相是，我不知道自己为何写作。我只知道我必须写。
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.