"A life without reflection is a life half-lived."
The desire for recognition, the thymotic part of the soul, is the most fundamentally human part of the soul.
现代生活最深刻的问题源于个人在面对压倒性的社会力量、历史遗产、外部文化和生活技术时,要求保持其存在的自主性和个性。
"In the fields of observation chance favors only the prepared mind."
We are not just robots made of meat.
我们完全可能是在从错误的侧面考察世界,要找到有关世界的正确答案,也许需要改变视点、从世界的另一面考察它,即从心理内部而非心理外部考察。
"Writing is a way of discovering what you didn’t know you knew."
The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.