Freedom is the recognition of necessity.

  • -- Friedrich Engels 恩格斯

自由是对必要性的承认。

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There are really two types of laughter on the part of the spectator. There is the laughter of recognition - which means seeing things you're familiar with and laughing at yourself. But there's also hysterical laughter - a way of dealing with the things we see that upset us.

观众的笑声有两种类型。这就是承认的笑声——这意味着看到你熟悉的东西并嘲笑自己。但也有歇斯底里的笑声——这是一种处理令我们心烦意乱的事情的方式。

Recognition of this kinship with the rest of the universe is necessary for understanding him, but his essential nature is defined by qualities found nowhere else, not by those he has in common with apes, fishes, trees, fire, or anything other than himself.

认识到这种与宇宙其他部分的亲缘关系是理解他的必要条件,但他的本质是由其他地方所没有的品质所决定的,而不是由他与猿、鱼、树、火或任何东西的共同之处所决定的。

You’ll never get that freedom back again once people start paying you attention, and especially not once they start paying you money.

一旦人们开始关注你,尤其是一旦他们开始给你钱,你就再也不会获得那种自由了。

Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.

如果你喜欢,锁上你的图书馆;但是,没有一扇门,没有一把锁,没有一扇门闩,可以让我的思想自由。