Our capacity to draw happiness from aesthetic objects or material goods in fact seems critically dependent on our first satisfying a more important range of emotional or psychological needs, among them the need for understanding, for love, expression and respect.
无论是赏心悦目的事物,还是实实在在的东西,我们从中获取幸福的关键似乎取决于这样一个事实,那就是我们必须首先满足自己情感或心理上的一些更为重要的需求,诸如对理解、爱、宣泄和尊重的需求。《旅行的艺术》
The spirit of science lies in constant questioning and exploration, keeping us forever curious about the world.
To understand the mind, study its operations in real life.
Thinking consists in envisaging, realizing structural features and structural requirements.
Literature isn't a moral beauty contest.