The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end.

  • -- Leon Trotsky 托洛茨基

只要有某种东西可以证明目的是正当的,目的就可以证明手段是正当的。

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A couple of seats at a good picture house cost comparatively little but give a generous return in the shape of freshened minds and freedom from the worries that even the best regulated homes cannot always avoid.

几张好画屋的坐位相对来说成本较低,但却能带来丰厚的回报,让你头脑清醒,不用担心即使是监管最好的房子也无法避免的担忧。

Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophical thought has done its best, the wonder remains.

哲学始于奇迹。最后,当哲学思想尽其所能时,奇迹依然存在。

We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.

我们现在已经深入到这样一种境界:重述显而易见的东西是聪明人的首要职责。

Freedom is not a license to act but a license to exercise free choices in any given situation.

自由不是行动的许可证,而是在任何特定情况下行使自由选择的许可证。