History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions; the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology.

  • -- W. H. Auden 奥登

严格地说,历史是对问题的研究;答案研究属于人类学和社会学。

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There must be possible a fiction which, leaving sociology and case histories to the scientists, can arrive at the truth about the human condition, here and now, with all the bright magic of the fairy tale.

一定存在这样一种可能:把社会学和案例史留给科学家们,让他们用童话中所有的光明魔力,在此时此地,了解人类状况的真相。

There is no shorter path for joining a neutral existential anthropology, according to philosophy, with the existential decision before God, according to the Bible.

根据哲学,没有捷径可以将中立的存在人类学与上帝面前的存在决定结合起来。

If evolution exists in every living species, likewise so too does devolution.

如果每个物种都存在进化,那么权力下放也同样存在。

Even at its most perceptive, sociology deals in abstractions.

即使在最具洞察力的时候,社会学也处理抽象问题。