"The only true voyage of discovery, the only fountain of Eternal Youth, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes, to behold the universe through the eyes of another, of a hundred others, to behold the hundred universes that each of them beholds."

人类本性中最深切的欲望是成为重要的存在。

The present state of the system of nature is evidently a resultant of what it was in the preceding moment, and if we conceive of an intelligence which at a given instant comprehends all the relations of the entities of this universe, it could state the respective positions, motions, and general effects of all these entities at any time in the past or future.

He said that the world was made for men to fight in and that the worth of a thing was the worth of the fight for it.

"We are all broken, that's how the light gets in."

现代时代最重要的政治发展是现代国家的崛起。