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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Science is the tool of the Western mind and with it more doors can be opened than with bare hands. It is part and parcel of our knowledge and obscures our insight only when it holds that the understanding given by it is the only kind there is.

科学是西方思想的工具,用它打开的门比徒手打开的要多。它是我们知识的重要组成部分,只有当我们的洞察力认为它所给予的理解是唯一存在的时候,它才会蒙蔽我们的洞察力。

No one should be so precious as to refuse criticism of their work. But to respect an opinion, we have to know that it was given honestly and with proper thought.

没有人应该如此珍贵到拒绝对他们工作的批评。但是,要尊重一个意见,我们必须知道它是诚实地、经过适当考虑而提出的。

For now, I'm just going to hang out with these two smoking hotties and fly privately around the world. It might be lonely up here, but I sure like the view.

现在,我只打算和这两个抽烟的辣妹呆在一起,然后自己飞到世界各地去。这里可能有点寂寞,但我很喜欢这里的景色。

It's a battle to be seen in the world of advertisers and in the world of business as a serious force.

这是一场在广告界和商界被视为一支重要力量的战斗。

The world doesn't understand me and I don't understand the world, that's why I've withdrawn from it.

这个世界不了解我,我也不了解这个世界,这就是为什么我要远离它。

I worked also, doing things such as our paper route and, later on, waitressing.

我也做过一些工作,比如送报纸,后来又做服务员。

Proper names are rigid designators.

专有名词是严格的指示词。