You may be sure that when a man begins to call himself a ‘realist’, he is preparing to do something he is secretly ashamed of doing.

  • -- Sydney J. Harris 悉尼J.哈里斯

你可以肯定,当一个人开始自称为“现实主义者”时,他正在准备做一件他暗自感到羞耻的事情。

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If with open mind one reads and observes industriously and long; if in so doing one covers a wide field and so covering reflects in terms of realism, he is likely, soon or late, to be brought to a sudden consciousness that Man is an unknown quantity and his existence unsuspected.

如果一个人以开放的心态,勤奋而长久地阅读和观察;如果一个人这样做涵盖了一个广阔的领域,而这样的涵盖反映了现实主义,那么他可能很快或迟些时候会突然意识到,人是一个未知数,他的存在是不被怀疑的。

Realism is punishing. Probabilistic skepticism is worse.

现实主义是惩罚。概率怀疑主义更糟。