The New Age movement looks like a mixed bag. I see much in it that seems good: It's optimistic; it's enthusiastic; it has the capacity for belief. On the debit side, I think one needs to distinguish between belief and credulity.

  • -- Huston Smith 休斯顿·史密斯

新时代运动看起来是一个混合体。我从中看到了很多似乎不错的东西:乐观;这是热情;它有信念的能力。在借方,我认为一个人需要区分信仰和轻信。

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There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains, the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.

现在有一些新词可以作为大家的借口。给我过去那些英雄和恶棍的美好时光,那些你可以为之喝彩或嘘声的人。对他们来说,有一个真理是今天所有圆滑的轻信都无法触及的。

It's not even about black and white anymore, because so many people are from mixed backgrounds and mixed ethnicities, and it's just a great time to be able to pull all that together.

这甚至不再是关于黑人和白人的问题了,因为很多人来自不同的背景和不同的种族,这是一个很好的时机,能够把所有这些融合在一起。

Better be too credulous than too skeptical.

与其过于怀疑,不如过于轻信。