The function of mental processes is to mediate between the needs of the organism and the demands of the environment.
过去是一个异国,那里的人做事方式不同。
The strength of a state is not just its ability to coerce, but its ability to provide services and maintain legitimacy in the eyes of its citizens.
没有事情的时候,需要照管这颗心,小心谨慎,好像有事一样;有了事情的时候,却要放下这颗心,泰然自得,好像没事一样。没有事情能像有事一样提防,才可以平息意想不到的变故;有了事情能像无事一样镇定,才能消除事件过程中的危机。
统计学家不能推卸理清科学推断原理的责任,同样,任何其他思考者也必须承担类似的义务。
There are no hard distinctions between what is real and what is unreal, nor between what is true and what is false. A thing is not necessarily either true or false; it can be both true and false.