Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage, not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny, but to rouse them from lethargy, and to aid them to judge for themselves.

  • -- William Ellery Channing 钱宁

伟大的思想使别人变得伟大。他们的优越性是要利用的,不是要把群众变成知识分子的附庸,不是要在他们之上建立一种精神上的专制,而是要把他们从昏睡中唤醒,帮助他们自己作出判断。

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You can do the best research and be making the strongest intellectual argument, but if readers don't get past the third paragraph you've wasted your energy and valuable ink.

你可以做最好的研究,提出最有力的学术论点,但如果读者没有读完第三段,你就浪费了你的精力和宝贵的墨水。

The various forms of intellectual activity which together make up the culture of an age, move for the most part from different starting-points, and by unconnected roads.

构成一个时代文化的各种形式的智力活动,在很大程度上是由不同的起点和不相连的道路所构成的。

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.

困难是用来振奋人心的,而不是用来打击士气的。人类的精神是通过冲突而变得强大。

Distinction is the consequence, never the object of a great mind.

区别是结果,而不是伟大思想的目的。