By what criterion... can we distinguish among the numberless effects, that are also causes, and among the causes that may, for aught we can know, be also effects, - how can we distinguish which are the means and which are the ends?

  • -- Chauncey Wright 他的学生赖特

的标准……我们能在无数的结果中加以区分吗?这些结果也是原因,而在我们所知道的原因中,也许也是结果,我们怎么能区分哪些是手段,哪些是目的呢?

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Reality is how we interpret it. Imagination and volition play a part in that interpretation. Which means that all reality is to some extent a fiction.

现实就是我们对它的诠释。想象和意志在这种解释中起了一定作用。这意味着所有的现实在某种程度上都是虚构的。

If reason is a universal faculty, the decision of the common mind is the nearest criterion of truth.

如果理性是一种普遍的能力,那么普通头脑的决定就是对真理最接近的判断标准。

Maybe you are searching among the branches, for what only appears in the roots.

也许你正在树枝间寻找,寻找只出现在树根里的东西。

Who ever converses among old books will be hard to please among the new.

在旧书中交谈的人,在新书中很难讨人喜欢。

Sometimes... Love means letting go when you want to hold on tighter.

有时……爱意味着当你想抓得更紧的时候放手。

Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth.

只有一个人的品格才是真正的价值标准。