The mind of the Renaissance was not a pilgrim mind, but a sedentary city mind, like that of the ancients.

  • -- George Santayana 乔治·桑塔亚纳

文艺复兴时期的思想不是朝圣者的思想,而是像古人一样,定居于城市的思想。

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We may affirm, then, that the main drift of the later Renaissance was away from a humanism that favored a free expansion toward a humanism that was in the highest degree disciplinary and selective.

我们可以肯定的是,文艺复兴后期的主要趋势是从人文主义转向人文主义,这种人文主义倾向于自由的扩展到最高程度的学科和选择性。

The Renaissance of the fifteenth century was, in many things, great rather by what it designed then by what it achieved.

在许多方面,十五世纪的文艺复兴之所以伟大,与其说是由于它所设计的,不如说是由于它所取得的成就。

We do not mind establishing a long-term truce between us and you.

我们不介意我们和你方之间达成长期休战。

You cannot plough a field by turning it over in your mind.

你不可能在头脑中翻个身就能犁地。