The most important political virtue is moderation, the ability to balance competing interests and values in a way that promotes the common good.
The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past.
I read a book one day and my whole life was changed.
问题不是“我们想知道关于人们的什么？”，而是“人们想告诉我们关于他们自己的什么？”
What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.
我们都是森林的生物，而森林也是我们的生物。
You can't please everyone, so don't try.
The very definition of the real becomes: that of which it is possible to give an equivalent reproduction... The real is not only what can be reproduced, but that which is always already reproduced. That is the hyperreal.