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The line between good and evil is permeable and anyone can cross it when pushed by circumstances.
"The line between good and evil is permeable and anyone can cross it when pushed by circumstances."
"The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself."
And America, too, is a delusion, the grandest one of all. The white race believes—believes with all its heart—that it is their right to take the land. To kill Indians. Make war. Enslave their brothers. This nation shouldn’t exist, if there is any justice in the world, for its foundations are murder, theft, and cruelty.
Sometimes you have to lose yourself before you can find anything.
The world is so full of simple, obvious, and beautiful things that it's a wonder anyone ever bothers to invent anything at all.
If you want to make a human being into a monster, deny them, at the cultural level, any reflection of themselves.
The truth about the world, he said, is that anything is possible. Had you not seen it all from birth and thereby bled it of its strangeness it would appear to you for what it is, a hat trick in a medicine show, a fevered dream, a trance bepopulate with chimeras having neither analogue nor precedent, an itinerant carnival, a migratory tentshow whose ultimate destination after many a pitch in many a mudded field is unspeakable and calamitous beyond reckoning.
"Theologians talk about a prevenient grace that precedes grace itself and allows us to accept it. I think there must also be a prevenient courage that allows us to be brave - that is, to acknowledge that there is more beauty than our eyes can bear, that precious things have been put into our hands and to do nothing to honor them is to do great harm."
"It is worth living long enough to outlast whatever sense of grievance you may acquire."
To be a poet is to have a soul so quick to discern, that no shade of quality escapes it.
"Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so."
"Think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases, think for yourself."
"Language is a tool, and like any tool, it can be used for good or for ill."
希望は、どんな困難の中にも見つけられる。
希望は、どんな暗闇の中にも存在する。
Collaboration in mathematics is essential; the exchange of ideas leads to breakthroughs that no single mind could achieve alone.
我没有任何特别的秘诀(用于开发新的证明)……这就是为什么做研究既具有挑战性又具有吸引力的原因。这就像在丛林中迷路,试图利用你能收集到的所有知识来想出一些新的技巧,并且如果运气好的话,你可能会找到出路。
I don't have any particular recipe [for developing new proofs] ... It is the reason why doing research is challenging as well as attractive. It's like being lost in a jungle and trying to use all the knowledge that you can gather to come up with some new tricks, and with some luck you might find a way out.