It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

  • -- Ralph Waldo Emerson 拉尔夫·沃尔多·爱默生

在这个世界上,跟随世俗的意见生活是很容易的;在孤独中,我们很容易活在自己的世界里;但伟大的人是那些在人群中保持绝对甜蜜的孤独的独立性的人。

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It is in deep solitude that I find the gentleness with which I can truly love my brothers. The more solitary I am the more affection I have for them…. Solitude and silence teach me to love my brothers for what they are, not for what they say.

只有在深深的孤独中,我才能找到真正爱我的兄弟们的温柔。我越孤独,就越爱他们……孤独和沉默教会我爱我的兄弟,因为他们是谁,而不是他们说什么。

It has become almost a cliche to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics.

说没有人会吹嘘自己对文学的无知几乎已经成了陈词滥调,但吹嘘自己对科学的无知、自豪地宣称自己在数学方面的无能是可以被社会接受的。

In reality there are no separate events. Life moves along like water, it's all connected to the source of the river is connected to the mouth and the ocean.

在现实中没有单独的事件。生命就像水一样流动,它与河流的源头相连,与河口和海洋相连。

Be as beneficent as the sun or the sea, but if your rights as a rational being are trenched on, die on the first inch of your territory.

要像太阳或大海一样仁慈,但是如果你作为一个理性存在的权利被牢牢地钉住,那就死在你领土的第一寸土地上。

The human is indissolubly linked with imitation: a human being only becomes human at all by imitating other human beings.

人与模仿是密不可分的:一个人只有通过模仿他人才能成为真正的人。

In my opinion the prevailing systems of education are all wrong, from the first stage to the last stage.

在我看来,现行的教育体制从第一阶段到最后阶段都是错误的。

Disillusion comes only to the illusioned. One cannot be disillusioned of what one never put faith in.

幻灭只发生在幻想的人身上。一个人不可能对他从未相信过的东西感到幻灭。

No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.

没有任何成文的法律比民意支持的不成文习俗更具约束力。

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.

如果你不把自己的真实情况告诉别人,你就不能把别人的真实情况告诉别人。

Let no one delay the study of philosophy while young nor weary of it when old.

不要让任何人在年轻时耽误对哲学的研究,也不要在年老时对哲学感到厌倦。

The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship.

最可怕的孤独是缺乏真诚的友谊。

Art begins in imitation and ends in innovation.

艺术始于模仿,止于创新。