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.
真正的自由是内心的自由。
A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
The historian’s task is to understand the past, the novelist’s to make it live.