Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.

  • -- Thomas Carlyle 托马斯·卡莱尔

沉默如永恒之深,言语如时间之浅。

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Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.

死亡不是生命中的一件大事:我们活着不是为了体验死亡。如果我们认为永恒不是指无限的时间,而是永恒,那么永恒的生命属于活在当下的人。

A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us back to essentials: it reveals how dearly we must pay for the invention of speech.

谈话中突然的沉默突然把我们带回本质:它揭示了我们必须为语言的发明付出多大的代价。

Speech sounds cannot be understood, delimited, classified and explained except in the light of the tasks which they perform in language.

语音不能被理解、划分、分类和解释,除非根据它们在语言中所执行的任务。

I've discovered this new electronic technique that creates new speech out of stuff that's already there.

我发现了一种新的电子技术,可以用已有的材料创造出新的语音。

Present, n. That part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of hope.

现在,n.现在,现在,现在把失望的领域和希望的领域分开的那部分永恒。

Every successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed.

每一次成功的革命都及时披上了被推翻的暴君的外衣。

Don't you know that silence supports the accuser's charge?

难道你不知道沉默支持原告的指控吗?

Architecture aims at Eternity.

建筑的目标是永恒。