Study with desire is real activity; without desire it is but the semblance and mockery of activity.

  • -- William Godwin 威廉·葛德文

有欲望的学习是真正的活动;没有欲望,它只是活动的表象和嘲弄。

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I ain't saying it ain't all right to study the Bible. You got to study the Bible to know the rules of life. But I notice a Lotta folks doing more looking at the Bible than doing what it says.

我不是说学习圣经不好。你必须研读圣经才能知道生活的规则。但我注意到很多人更多地是在看圣经,而不是按照圣经上说的去做。

A child's appetite for new toys appeal to the desire for ownership and appropriation: the appeal of toys comes to lie not in their use but in their status as possessions.

孩子对新玩具的兴趣吸引了他们对拥有和占有的渴望:玩具的吸引力不在于它们的用途,而在于它们作为财产的地位。

In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create.

在一个把工作和生产力混为一谈的工业社会里,生产的必要性一直是创造欲望的敌人。

Many men are deeply moved by the mere semblance of suffering in a woman; they take the look of pain for a sign of constancy or of love.

许多男人被一个女人表面上的痛苦所深深打动;他们以痛苦的表情来寻找坚贞或爱的迹象。

The world is a perpetual caricature of itself; at every moment it is the mockery and the contradiction of what it is pretending to be.

世界永远是对自己的讽刺;每时每刻,它都是对它所假装的东西的嘲弄和矛盾。

If we study what is merely average, we will remain merely average.

如果我们只研究一般的东西,我们将仍然只是一般的东西。

It would be mockery to call such dreariness heaven at all.

把这样沉闷的地方叫做天堂,简直是一种嘲弄。