【译文】 孔子说：“早上理解真理，晚上死也值得。”

The other thing about modern society and why it causes this anxiety, is that we have nothing at its center that is non-human. We are the first society to be living in a world where we don't worship anything other than ourselves. We think very highly of ourselves, and so we should; we've put people on the Moon, done all sorts of extraordinary things. And so we tend to worship ourselves.

宁愿因为有所作为而被世人知晓而死，也不愿默默无闻地活着

The fact is that every writer creates his own precursors. His work modifies our conception of the past, as it will modify the future.