A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.

If you are not willing to learn, no one can help you. If you are determined to learn, no one can stop you.

The end of history will be a very sad time. The struggle for recognition, the willingness to risk one's life for a purely abstract goal, the worldwide ideological struggle that called forth daring, courage, imagination, and idealism, will be replaced by economic calculation, the endless solving of technical problems, environmental concerns, and the satisfaction of sophisticated consumer demands.

《中庸》开篇指出人性源于天命的赋予

Life is too short to waste time hating anyone.

I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape—the loneliness of it, the dead feeling of winter. Something waits beneath it, the whole story doesn’t show.