To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea.

  • -- Henry David Thoreau 亨利·大卫·梭罗

对一个哲学家来说,所有的新闻,就像人们所说的,都是流言蜚语,编辑和阅读这些新闻的人都是喝茶的老妇人。

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Yes, it's a man's world, but that's all right because they're making a total mess of it. We're chipping away at their control, taking the parts we want. Some women think it's a difficult task, but it's not.

是的,这是一个男人的世界,但没关系,因为他们把它搞得一团糟。我们正在削弱他们的控制,拿走我们想要的零件。一些女性认为这是一项艰巨的任务,但事实并非如此。

One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has not already been said by one philosopher or another.

人们无法想象有什么事情是如此奇怪和难以置信,以至于没有一个或另一个哲学家说过。

A philosopher once said, 'Half of good philosophy is good grammar.'

一位哲学家曾经说过:“好的哲学有一半是好的语法。”

What a woman wants is a reaction. What a man wants is a woman.

女人想要的是一种反应。男人想要的是女人。