The universal principle of etymology in all languages: words are carried over from bodies and from the properties of bodies to express the things of the mind and spirit. The order of ideas must follow the order of things.

  • -- Giambattista Vico 维科

所有语言中词源学的普遍原则:词是从身体和身体的性质中继承下来的,用来表达思想和精神的东西。思想的秩序必须遵循事物的秩序。

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A man is a method, a progressive arrangement; a selecting principle, gathering his like to him; wherever he goes.

人是一种方法,一种渐进的安排;一个选择的原则,收集他喜欢他;不论走到哪里,都是公众。

The European model is in danger if we obliterate the principle of personal responsibility.

如果我们抹杀个人责任原则,欧洲模式将处于危险之中。