历史学家行走在事实与想象的钢丝上。
The historian walks a tightrope between fact and imagination.
As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.
比起目的地，我对旅程更感兴趣。
In the infancy of societies, the chiefs of state shape its institutions; later the institutions shape the chiefs of state.
The purpose of abstraction is not to be vague, but to create a new semantic level in which one can be absolutely precise.