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Meaning is what essence becomes when it is divorced from the object of reference and wedded to the word.

  • -- Willard Van Orman Quine 威拉德·冯·奥曼·蒯因

意义是本质脱离了指称的对象而依附于词时所变成的东西。

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If architects want to strengthen a decrepit arch, they increase the load that is laid upon it, for thereby the parts are joined more firmly together. So, if therapists wish to foster their patients' mental health, they should not be afraid to increase that load through a reorientation toward the meaning of one's life.

如果建筑师想要加固一个破旧的拱门，他们会增加施加在上面的荷载，因为这样各个部分就能更牢固地连接在一起。因此，如果治疗师希望培养他们的病人的心理健康，他们不应该害怕通过对人生意义的重新定位而增加这种负担。

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If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.

如果整个宇宙没有意义，我们就永远不会发现它没有意义:就像如果宇宙中没有光，因此没有眼睛的生物，我们就永远不会知道它是黑暗的。黑暗将没有意义。

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If Art relates itself to an Object, it becomes descriptive, divisionist, literary.

如果艺术把自己与一个对象联系起来，它就变成描述性的、区分性的、文学性的。

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The least touchable object in the world is the eye.

世界上最难触摸的东西是眼睛。

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