回忆和期待一样,是一种简化和剪辑现实的工具。
Memory was in this respect similar to anticipation: an instrument of simplification and selection.
People are just as wonderful as sunsets if you let them be. When I look at a sunset, I don't find myself saying, 'Soften the orange a bit on the right hand corner.' I don't try to control a sunset. I watch with awe as it unfolds.
The desire for recognition, the thymotic part of the soul, is the most fundamentally human part of the human being.