I went to the woods because I wanted to live deliberately,I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, To put to rout all that was not life, and not when I had come to die, Discover that I had not lived.
我步入丛林,因为我希望生活有意义,我希望活得深刻,吸取生命中所有精华,把非生命的一切都击溃,以免当我生命终结,发现自己从没有活过。
"In the quest for truth, there are no shortcuts, only the relentless pursuit of knowledge."
The mind is a set of information-processing machines that were designed by natural selection to solve adaptive problems faced by our hunter-gatherer ancestors.
——1941年与美国外交官阿弗雷尔·哈里曼(Averell Harriman)的谈话