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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Well, when you're relaxed, your mind takes you to the whole reality. There's no such thing as time when you're really relaxed. That's why meditation works.

当你放松的时候,你的大脑会把你带到整个现实世界。没有什么东西能让你真正放松。这就是冥想起作用的原因。

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。

In my mind, I never doubted whether I was going to achieve what I wanted to do. I just had to decide what it is I wanted to do.

在我的脑海里,我从来没有怀疑过我是否能完成我想做的事情。我必须决定我想做什么。

The book which you read from a sense of duty, or because for any reason you must, does not commonly make friends with you.

你出于责任感而读的书,或因为任何你必须读的原因而读的书,通常不会和你交朋友。

Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.

知识是积累事实的过程;智慧在于他们的单纯。

The public is a ferocious beast; one must either chain it or flee from it.

公众是一头凶猛的野兽;一个人必须把它拴起来,否则就得逃跑。

Who belongs to the community of the commonly protected?

谁属于受共同保护的群体?

I fear no man, no beast or evil, brother.

我不怕任何人,不怕野兽,不怕邪恶,兄弟。