The philosophic spirit of inquiry may be traced to brute curiosity, and that to the habit of examining all things in search of food.

  • -- William Winwood Reade 威廉·温伍德·里德

探究的哲学精神可以追溯到野蛮的好奇心,也可以追溯到探究一切事物以寻找食物的习惯。

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Every philosophical problem, when it is subjected to the necessary analysis and justification, is found either to be not really philosophical at all, or else to be, in the sense in which we are using the word, logical.

每一个哲学问题,当它经过必要的分析和论证时,就会发现,要么不是真正的哲学问题,要么就是我们所说的逻辑问题。

There is a class, moreover, by whom all these scientific theories, and more are held as ascertained facts, and as the basis of philosophical inferences which strike at the root of theistic beliefs.

此外,有一类人认为所有这些科学理论,以及更多的科学理论,都是确定的事实,都是哲学推论的基础,而哲学推论又触及有神论信仰的根源。

There is something bigger than fact: the underlying spirit, all it stands for, the mood, the vastness, the wildness.

还有比事实更重要的东西:内在的精神,它所代表的一切,情绪,浩瀚,野性。

Some think they are preserving tradition when they are only perpetuating a habit.

有些人认为他们是在保留传统,而实际上他们只是在延续一种习惯。

I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.

我一生都是一个自私的人,在实践上,虽然在原则上不是。

No harm comes to man from outside alone: dumbness is the objective spirit.

客观的精神是沉默。