13. Observance of customs and laws can very easily be a cloak for a lie so subtle that our fellow human beings are unable to detect it. It may help us to escape all criticism, we may even be able to deceive ourselves in the belief of our obvious righteousness. But deep down, below the surface of the average man's conscience, he hears a voice whispering, "There is something not right," no matter how much his rightness is supported by public opinion or by the moral code. 对习俗和法律的遵从很容易成为对谎言的掩饰，这种掩饰极为巧妙，令人无法察觉。它可以使我们逃避所有的批评，它甚至能够使我们欺骗自己，令我们相信自己是 显然正当的。但是无论他的正当性得到多少公众舆论或道德准则的支持，在内心深处、在普通人的意识层次之下，他仍听到一个低低的声音：“哪儿有点不正常”。
14. The teacher pretended that algebra was a perfectly natural affair, to be taken for granted, whereas I didn't even know what numbers were. Mathematics classes became sheer terror and torture to me. I was so intimidated by my incomprehension that I did not dare to ask any questions. 老师声称代数是完美而自然的、我们应无条件地接受它，而我甚至不能理解什么是数。对我来说数学课完全就是恐怖和折磨。我完全不理解代数，这使我胆怯得不敢问任何问题。
15. It all depends on how we look at things, and not on how they are themselves. 我们看待事物的方式、而不是事物本身如何，决定着一切。
16. In studying the history of the human mind one is impressed again and again by the fact that the growth of the mind is the widening of the range of consciousness, and that each step forward has been a most painful and laborious achievement. One could almost say that nothing is more hateful to man than to give up even a particle of his unconsciousness. Ask those who have tried to introduce a new idea! 在对人类心理史的研究中，这一事实给人以深刻印象：心智的成长就是意识范围的扩展，前进的每一步都是伴随着极度痛苦和艰难的成就。几乎可以说，人们最最痛恨的就是放弃潜意识，即使所放弃的仅是极微小的一点潜意识。试图引入新观念的人对此深有体会。
17. All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination. 人类的所有成就都源于创造性幻想。那么我们没有权利轻视想象力。
18. Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better. 确实，天才的天赋和他的人类品质有时会差异如此巨大，人们不得不怀疑天赋平庸点也许是件好事。
