Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, stealing, shouting and doing the things historians usually record, while on the banks, unnoticed, people build homes, make love, raise children, sing songs, write poetry and even whittle statues. The story of civilization is the story of what happened on the banks.

The goal of mathematics is to understand the structures that underlie the phenomena we observe.

"The heart has its reasons which reason knows not."

摆脱诱惑的唯一方法就是向它屈服。

现代性是一项未完成的计划。