At the core of all anger is a need that is not being fulfilled.

四勿：“非礼勿视，非礼勿听，非礼勿言，非礼勿动。”四端：“恻隐之心，仁之端也；羞恶之心，义之端也；辞让之心，礼之端也；是非之心，智之端也。”颜渊的“四勿”，要牢记心里；下工夫闲静存诚，克服外部的干扰以修养心性；孟子的“四端”，要尽力扩充，下工夫格物致知，由近及远，推己及人。

常识是世界上最广泛共享的商品，因为每个人都确信自己拥有足够的常识。

Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous—to poetry.

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

To be human is to be in the world, and to be in the world is to be in time.