The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.

"I am not interested in the individual fate of the characters, but in the social conditions that produce such fates."

"The world is a mirror, and the mirror is a game."

政治理论的研究不应局限于西方；我们需要探索非西方传统中丰富的政治思想。

过去是一面镜子，但我们往往只看到自己想看的东西。