真理最大的敌人不是谎言——刻意、虚假且不诚实——而是神话——持久、有说服力却不切实际。
"The worst enemy of truth is not the lie—deliberate, contrived, and dishonest—but the myth—persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic."
"A story is a letter that the author writes to himself, to tell himself things that he would be unable to discover otherwise."
No arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear, and danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.
The right of nature... is the liberty each man hath, to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature; that is to say, of his own life.
生活就是在你忙于制定其他计划时发生的事情。