How full of trifles everything is! It is only one's thoughts that fill a room with something more than furniture.

  • -- Wallace Stevens 华莱士·史蒂文斯

每件事都是那么琐碎!只有一个人的思想才能使房间里充满不仅仅是家具的东西。

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The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice that we fail to notice, there is little we can do to change; until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds.

我们思考和行动的范围受到我们没有注意到的东西的限制。因为我们没有注意到我们没有注意到,所以我们对改变几乎无能为力;直到我们注意到没有注意是如何塑造我们的思想和行为的。

A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humors and flatters them, as he does with a sprightly and forward child; but he neither consults them about, nor trusts them with, serious matters.

一个有理智的人只会和他们玩些鸡毛蒜皮的事,逗他们开心,奉承他们,就像他对待一个活泼好动的孩子一样;但他既不向他们请教,也不把严肃的事情托付给他们。

So long as I confine my thoughts to my own ideas divested of words, I do not see how I can be easily mistaken.

只要我把我的思想限制在我自己的思想中,不去用语言表达,我就看不出我怎么会容易犯错误。