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 only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
重要的不是金钱，而是你爱的人。
Every little thing you do is magic
"We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further."
最少的材料，最大的效果。
Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.
A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.
孩子从书中学到的最重要的事情是他们很重要。