"The past is always tense, the future perfect."
现实只是一抹幻影,尽管它从不消散。
——在广东和朋友谈自己的主张,1921年
Conflict is the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. It instigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplike passivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.