"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.
"In the fields of observation chance favors only the prepared mind."
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.