Few new truths have ever won their way against the resistance of established ideas save by being overstated.

  • -- Isaiah Berlin 以赛亚·伯林

除了被夸大,很少有新的真理能够战胜既定观念的阻力。

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If he who employs coercion against me could mould me to his purposes by argument, no doubt he would. He pretends to punish me because his argument is strong; but he really punishes me because his argument is weak.

如果对我采取胁迫手段的人能通过辩论使我达到他的目的,毫无疑问,他会的。他假装要惩罚我,因为他的论据很充分;但他真的惩罚了我,因为他的论点站不住脚。

I sat out a few years because I wasn't really sure what I wanted to do next. So many things were changing in music and in culture, so it seemed like a good time to step back.

我坐了几年,因为我不确定自己接下来想做什么。在音乐和文化领域,很多事情都在发生变化,所以这似乎是一个退一步的好时机。

I guess when we were up against it, we knew this album was going to be compared to all the classic early material, because it was going back to the original five.

我想当我们面对它的时候,我们知道这张专辑将会和所有早期的经典材料相比较,因为它将会回到最初的五张专辑。

Ideas came with explosive immediacy, like an instant birth. Human thought is like a monstrous pendulum; it keeps swinging from one extreme to the other.

思想的产生具有爆炸性的即时性,就像一个瞬间的诞生。人类的思想就像一个巨大的钟摆;它一直从一个极端摇摆到另一个极端。

A young man must let his ideas grow, not be continually rooting them up to see how they are getting on.

一个年轻人必须让他的思想成长,而不是不断地把它们生根发芽,看它们进展如何。

There are very few people who do what I do.

像我这样做的人很少。