Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.

  • -- George Orwell 乔治·奥威尔

每一代人都认为自己比前一代人更聪明,比后一代人更聪明。

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Thought once awakened does not again slumber; unfolds itself into a System of Thought; grows, in man after man, generation after generation, - till its full stature is reached, and such System of Thought can grow no farther, but must give place to another.

思想一旦觉醒就不再沉睡;展开成一个思维系统;这种思想体系只能在一个又一个人、一代又一代的身上生长,直到达到它的高度为止。

The public has an appetite for anything about imagination - anything that is as far away from reality as is creatively possible.

公众对任何与想象有关的东西都有兴趣——任何与现实尽可能远的创造性的东西。

Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger generation.

没有什么比谴责年轻一代更能说明一个人的年龄了。

Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is.

诗歌是人对本真的反叛。