I will tell you what I will do and what I will not do. I will not serve that in which I no longer believe, whether it call itself my home, my fatherland, or my church: and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can, using for my defence the only arms I allow myself to use—silence, exile, and cunning.

The words we use to describe the world are the world.

驴子想的是一样，赶驴的人想的却是另一样。

To lose a language is to lose a way of seeing the world.

任正非在一次高层会议上提问：“我的水平为什么比你们高？”，大家回答：不知道。任正非说：“因为我从每一件事情（成功或失败）中，都能比你们多体悟一点点东西，事情做多了，水平自然就提高了。”

世界称之为不道德的书籍，是那些展示了世界自身羞耻的书籍。