"It is easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism."

Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which nature herself is animated.

【译文】 仲弓问仁。孔子说：“出门时要象会见贵宾一样庄重，建工程时要象举行盛大祭典一样严肃。自己不愿做的，不要强加于人。同事中相处融洽，亲属中和睦友爱。”仲弓说：“我虽不才，愿照此办理。”

When you focus on doing what's right rather than what's easy, success follows naturally.

When the mind that is subtle goes out through the brain and the sense-organs, the gross names and forms appear; when it stays in the heart, the names and forms disappear.

To write is to explore the boundaries of the self.

The historian's task is to resurrect the voices silenced by time.