To look at the symbolic dimensions of social action—art, religion, ideology, science, law, morality, common sense—is not to turn away from the existential dilemmas of life for some empyrean realm of deemotionalized forms; it is to plunge into the midst of them.
关注社会行动的符号维度——艺术、宗教、意识形态、科学、法律、道德、常识——并不是为了逃避生活的存在困境，进入某种超然的、去情感化的形式领域；而是为了深入这些困境的核心。
I’m not afraid of dying, I’m afraid of not trying.
"To forget is to lose a part of ourselves, but to remember is to keep it alive."
树是希望的象征，扎根于当下，伸向未来。
在观察的领域中，机遇只偏爱那种有准备的头脑。
相信一个人不仅仅是个人，这是多么危险的想法。
你越诚实，人们就越能与你的音乐产生共鸣。