The metropolis exacts from man as a discriminating creature a different amount of consciousness than does rural life.

The most powerful art often emerges from the simplest ideas.

The first fruit of this imagination—and the first lesson of the social science that embodies it—is the idea that the individual can understand his own experience and gauge his own fate only by locating himself within his period, that he can know his own chances in life only by becoming aware of those of all individuals in his circumstances.

我被那些具有某种道德模糊性的故事所吸引，在那里对与错之间的界限是模糊的。

在数学中，最简单的解释往往是最深刻的。