Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.

  • -- Blaise Pascal 巴斯卡

在这个时代,真理是如此模糊,谎言是如此根深蒂固,以至于,除非我们热爱真理,否则我们无法知道它。

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Falsehood is never so successful as when she baits her hook with truth, and no opinions so fatally mislead us, as those that are not wholly wrong; as no watches so effectually deceive the wearer as those that are sometimes right.

谎言最成功的时候,莫过于它用真理当鱼饵勾住自己的鱼钩;没有比那些有时是正确的手表更能有效地欺骗佩戴者的了。

No further evidence is needed to show that 'mental illness' is not the name of a biological condition whose nature awaits to be elucidated, but is the name of a concept whose purpose is to obscure the obvious.

不需要进一步的证据来证明“精神疾病”不是一种生物学条件的名称,其性质有待阐明,而是一种概念的名称,其目的是掩盖显而易见的事实。

The international order established at the end of World War II could certainly have been worse. However, this order did contain certain factors which bore within them the seeds of instability.

在第二次世界大战结束时建立的国际秩序肯定会更糟。然而,这一秩序确实含有某些因素,在这些因素中埋下了不稳定的种子。

I've heard a few times, in three or four years, this league is going to be yours. I don't like that. Because I think I'm established now.

我已经听过好几次了,在三四年内,这个联盟将属于你们。我不喜欢那样。因为我想我已经确定了。

I would like to spare the time and effort of hack reviewers and, generally, persons who move their lips when reading.

我愿意花点时间和精力给那些黑客评论者,以及那些阅读时动嘴的人。

A man cannot dress, but his ideas get cloath’d at the same time.

一个人不会穿衣服,但他的思想同时也会穿衣服。

Lies and gossip have a wretched offspring.

谎言和流言蜚语会生出不幸的后代。