It is remarkable how much long-term advantage people like us have gotten by trying to be consistently not stupid, instead of trying to be very intelligent.

Music is a language that doesn’t speak in particular words. It speaks in emotions, and if it’s in the bones, it’s in the bones.

We are all shaped by the invisible hand of evolution.

The only information we can legitimately derive from aesthetic and moral experiences is information about our own mental and physical make-up.

An object that tells of the loss, destruction, disappearance of objects. Does not speak of itself. Tells of others. Will it include them?

教育并不像在花园里播种一样在我们身上种植能力；它只是引导它们走向应该走的方向。