Culture is a necessary pause from the daily rat race, from our chaotic and often vulgar political surroundings, and it is a chance to recover our spiritual energy. Great books, music, and paintings are not only an extraordinary school of beauty, truth, and good, but also a way of discovering our own beauty, truth, and good – the potential for change, of bettering ourselves and even some of our interlocutors.
文化是快节奏生活中必须的调节剂，让我们从混乱可鄙的政治环境中暂时得到解脱；同时也让我们的精神力量得到恢复。伟大的书、音乐和绘画不仅是非比寻常的真善美学校，也是我们自身真善美的发现之路——它们给我们带来改变潜能，完善我们甚至我们的对话者。