The proper route to an understanding of the world is an examination of our errors about it.

  • -- Errol Morris 埃罗尔·莫里斯

了解世界的正确途径是检查我们对世界的错误认识。

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The Creator has not thought proper to mark those in the forehead who are of stuff to make good generals. We are first, therefore, to seek them blindfold, and then let them learn the trade at the expense of great losses.

造物主认为不应该在额头上标记出那些有能力成为优秀将军的人。因此,我们首先要蒙住他们的眼睛,然后让他们以巨大的损失为代价来学习交易。

I simply regard romantic comedies as a subgenre of sci-fi, in which the world created therein has different rules than my regular human world. Then I just lap it up.

我只是把浪漫喜剧看作是科幻小说的一个亚种,在这个亚种中,我所创造的世界与我平常的人类世界有着不同的规则。然后我就把它吞下去。

The money can be decent, but I really don't recommend the work-for-hire route as an entry into publishing. Too many things can go wrong.

薪水还算不错,但我真的不建议把雇佣工作作为进入出版业的途径。太多的事情会出错。

All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.

我们所有的知识都是从感觉开始,然后到理解,最后到理性为止。没有比理性更高的东西了。

From a very young age my mother persuaded me that I could write for fun, but I had to have a proper job - very good advice.

在我很小的时候,我妈妈就说服我写作是为了好玩,但我必须有一份合适的工作——这是非常好的建议。

Were we fully to understand the reasons for other people's behavior, it would all make sense.

如果我们能完全理解其他人行为的原因,这一切都是有道理的。

Loving someone and having them love you back is the most precious thing in the world.

爱一个人,让他爱你是世界上最珍贵的事情。

LT was just a wilder person. I don't go that route no more.

只是一个更狂野的人。我再也不走那条路了。