The sacred and the beautiful stand side by side, two doors that open onto a single space—in that space, we find our home.
神圣与美并肩而立,是通往同一空间的两扇门——在那空间中,我们找到了归宿。
So what I want to argue for is not that we should give up on our ideas of success, but we should make sure that they are our own. We should focus in on our ideas, and make sure that we own them; that we are truly the authors of our own ambitions. Because it's bad enough not getting what you want, but it's even worse to have an idea of what it is you want, and find out, at the end of the journey, that it isn't, in fact, what you wanted all along.
To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates.
Truth never damages a cause that is just.
It turns out that not every little girl grows up to be beautiful.