A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.

  • -- Saul Bellow 索尔·贝娄

当对幻觉的需求非常强烈时,大量的智慧可以投入到无知中去。

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Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion.

的确,满是缺点是一种罪恶;但是,满是幻想却不愿意去认识它们,这是更大的罪恶,因为这是一种自愿性幻想的进一步错误。

The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.

这个世界上的邪恶几乎总是来自无知,如果他们缺乏理解,善意和恶意可能造成同样多的伤害。

The world is full of small ignorance. We must all do our best to ignore them and thereby keep them small, don't you think.

这个世界充满了小小的无知。你不认为我们必须尽最大努力去忽略它们,从而保持它们的小。

Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion.

没有什么比幻想的破灭更令人伤心的了。