子曰:“不患人之不己知,患不知人也。”
【译文】 孔子说:“不怕没人了解自己,就怕自己不了解别人。”
Language is not a tool for describing reality, but a reality in itself.
History is not the past—it is the method we have evolved of organizing our ignorance of the past.
The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease; the happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.