The essence of modernity is psychologism, the experiencing and interpretation of the world in terms of the reactions of our inner life and indeed as an inner world, the dissolution of fixed contents in the fluid element of the soul, from which all that is substantive is filtered and whose forms are merely forms of motion.

The advantage of a ridiculously ambitious goal is that it sets the bar very high so even in failure it may be a success measured by the ordinary.

我不想成为明星，我想成为一名演员。

每一个实验都会破坏通过先前实验获得的关于系统的某些知识。

译文：亲近贤臣，疏远小人，这是西汉兴盛的原因;亲近小人，疏远贤臣，这是东汉衰败的原因。