A man may be in as just possession of truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender.

  • -- Thomas Browne 托马斯·布朗

一个人可能像拥有一座城市一样拥有真理,但却被迫投降。

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But there's no reason why we should abdicate our foundational principles because certain groups don't believe in them. You know, no majority should surrender its deeply held beliefs to those who don't believe in anything.

但我们没有理由放弃我们的基本原则,因为某些群体不相信它们。你知道,没有哪个多数派应该把自己根深蒂固的信念交给那些什么都不相信的人。

I forced myself to think what is the new concept and it became clear to me that it was risk, not only in technology and ecology, but in life and employment, too.

我强迫自己去思考什么是新概念,我清楚地意识到这是一种风险,不仅在技术和生态方面,而且在生活和就业方面也是如此。

Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.

那些拥有绝对权力的人不仅可以预言并使他们的预言成真,而且他们还可以说谎并使他们的谎言成真。

Music embodies feeling without forcing it to contend and combine with thought, as it is forced in most arts and especially in the art of words.

音乐体现的是情感,而不是像大多数艺术,尤其是文字艺术那样,强迫它与思想斗争和结合。

Bring acceptance into your nonacceptance. Bring surrender into your nonsurrender. Then see what happens.

把接受变成不接受。把投降变成不投降。然后看看会发生什么。

Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.

幸福不在于拥有,也不在于拥有,幸福寓于灵魂。