Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed.

  • -- Edith Hamilton 依迪丝·汉密尔顿

违背人性事实的理论是注定要失败的。

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With this sense of the splendour of our experience and of its awful brevity, gathering all we are into one desperate effort to see and touch, we shall hardly have time to make theories about the things we see and touch.

有了这种体验的壮丽感和它可怕的简练感,把我们所有的一切都集中到一个绝望的努力去看和触摸,我们将几乎没有时间对我们所看到和触摸的事物做出理论。

Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible.

理论总是很单薄和虚幻的,经验只是有形的。

Love is a strange master, and human nature is still stranger.

爱情是一位陌生的主人,人性更是陌生。

A jealous ear hears all things.

嫉妒的耳朵能听到一切。