To contemplate is to look at shadows.

  • -- Victor Hugo 维克多雨果

沉思就是观察影子。

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Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds and business. Hence come those frequent absences, so observable in conversation; for whilst the body is confined to present company, the mind is flown to that which it delights in.

每个人都知道,在人群和商业中,人们的头脑不会停止思考自己喜欢什么。因此,他们常常不在家,这在谈话中是显而易见的。因为当身体被限制在现在的陪伴下,思想就会飞向它所喜欢的东西。

Mine is the first generation able to contemplate the possibility that we may live our entire lives without going to war or sending our children to war.

我的父母是第一代能够思考这样一种可能性的人:我们一生中可能不会去打仗,也不会让我们的孩子去打仗。

In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.

在信仰中,有足够的光给那些想要相信的人,有足够的阴影让那些不相信的人失明。

Just as tall trees are known by their shadows, so are good men known by their enemies.

正如高大的树木因其阴影而为人所知,好人也因其敌人而为人所知。