The more determinedly I exist, as myself, within the conditions of the time, the more clearly I shall hear the language of the past, the nearer I shall feel the breath of universal history.

出自《论语·子罕篇第九》。我曾经用尽全力，但是孔夫子仍然卓立在我的面前，我想要去追从他，但是总觉得没有办法能够追上去。