That's exhilarating if you're doing well, and very crushing if you're not. It leads, in the worst cases -- in the analysis of a sociologist like Emil Durkheim -- it leads to increased rates of suicide. There are more suicides in developed, individualistic countries than in any other part of the world. And some of the reason for that is that people take what happens to them extremely personally -- they own their success, but they also own their failure.

灵魂是心理生活的统一体。

万物皆会腐朽，命运召唤时，君王亦须服从。

最伟大的故事是那些超越时间的故事。

文化的功能观点坚持这样的原则：在每一种文明类型中，每一种习俗、物质对象、观念和信仰都履行某种重要功能，完成某些任务，代表一个运作整体中不可或缺的部分。

我们假装是什么，我们就是什么，所以我们必须小心我们假装是什么。