The first fruit of this imagination - and the first lesson of the social science that embodies it - is the idea that the individual can understand his own experience and gauge his own fate only by locating himself within his period, that he can know his own chances in life only by becoming aware of those of all individuals in his circumstances.
The spiritual life does not remove us from the world but leads us deeper into it.
对确定性的追求阻碍了对意义的探索。不确定性正是推动人展开其力量的条件。
仓库里空虚了日子就会难,子孙愚笨了怎么知晓礼义呢?
"I’m not perfect. I make mistakes like everyone else."
Pleasure is the greatest good, and we should seek it and avoid pain.