The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success.
我们所相信的观念,并非是事物真实的本质,而只是它们表面的样貌。
"Stories are the way we remember who we are."
发现说谎者悖论及相关悖论使人们认识到,直觉上的真理概念并不像乍看起来那么简单。
The problem with quantitative easing is that it works in practice but it doesn't work in theory.
——《致鲁赛尔函》(1906年11月8日)
不要为短期利益而牺牲你的诚信。
I don't take anything for granted.