Man tries to make for himself in the fashion that suits him best an amplified and intelligible picture of the world; he then tries to some extent to substitute this cosmos of his for the world of experience, and thus to overcome it. This is what the painter, the poet, the speculative philosopher, and the natural scientists do, each in his own fashion. Each makes this cosmos and its construction the pivot of his emotional life, in orfer to find in this way peace and security which he cannot find in the narrow whirlpool of personal experience.
人类总试图为自己寻找理解世界的方式，并在某种程度上用这种理解来取代真实的经验以超越现实；这也就是画家、诗人、哲学家和科学家已他们各自的方法来处理事情的方式。他们都把寻找一种建构世界和谐秩序的思维方式来做情感生活的重心，以寻找个人狭隘的现实经历中所缺乏的宁静与安全感。
We cannot despair of humanity, since we are ourselves human beings.
身为人类，我们不能对人性失望。
The fate of the world will be such as the world deserves.
人类的命运由人类自己决定。
The little word "we" I mistrust, and here's why:No man of another can say "he" is "I".
我怀疑“我们”这个字眼的意义，因为：没有人可以说“他”就是“我”。
Behind all agreement lies something amiss.All seeming accord cloaks a lurking abyss.
在众人皆同意的表象下，必然有一些被误解或忽略的事。
