Words are our life. We are human because we use language. So I think we are less human when we use less language.

  • -- Carol Shields 卡罗尔·希尔兹

语言是我们的生命。我们是人类,因为我们使用语言。所以我认为当我们使用更少的语言时,我们就更不像人类了。

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No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa.

没有一个社会能够消除人类的悲伤,没有一个政治制度能够把我们从生活的痛苦、对死亡的恐惧和对绝对的渴望中解救出来。是人的条件决定了社会的条件,而不是社会条件决定人的条件。

The automobile is technologically more sophisticated than the bundling board, but the human motives in their uses are sometimes the same.

汽车在技术上比捆绑板更为复杂,但人们使用它们的动机有时是相同的。

Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife.

音乐是精神的语言。它开启了生命带来和平、消除冲突的秘密。

Language is the dress of thought.

语言是思想的外衣。