All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called "Facts". They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain.

  • -- Thomas Hobbes 托马斯·霍布斯

所有宽宏大量的人都对通常所说的“事实”感到恐惧。他们是智力领域的野兽。

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This beast went to the well and drank, and the noise was in the beast's belly like unto the questing of thirty couple hounds, but all the while the beast drank there was no noise in the beast's belly.

这只野兽去井边喝水,声音在它的肚子里,就像三十只猎狗在追逐猎物一样,但是在它喝水的时候,肚子里一点声音也没有。

A new kind of mind thus beings to come into being which is based on the development of a common meaning that is constantly transforming in the process of the dialogue.

由此产生了一种新的意识形态,这种意识形态是建立在一种共同意义的发展之上的,这种共同意义在对话的过程中不断转化。

It is commonly agreed that children spend more hours per year watching television than in the classroom, and far less in actual conversation with their parents.

人们普遍认为,孩子们每年花在看电视上的时间比在教室里要多,与父母实际交谈的时间却少得多。

The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started.

希望的能力是生活中最重要的事实。它为人类提供了一种目标感和开始行动的能量。

One cannot possibly understand the teaching of the saints unless one has a pure mind and is trying to imitate their life.

人若没有清洁的心,不效法圣徒的行为,就不能明白他们的教训。

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

在教育中,没有什么比它以惰性事实的形式积累的无知更令人震惊的了。

A beast does not know that he is a beast, and the nearer a man gets to being a beast, the less he knows it.

野兽不知道自己是野兽,人越接近野兽,就越不知道自己是野兽。

Who belongs to the community of the commonly protected?

谁属于受共同保护的群体?