Words are but the signs of ideas.

  • -- Samuel Johnson 塞缪尔·约翰逊

言语不过是思想的标志。

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I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect the words, but here is the sense of it: "What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me."

我在什么地方见过一位慈善人士的墓志铭,这使我非常高兴。我记不得这句话了,但它的意思是:“我花了我失去了;我所拥有的留给别人;我所送出的东西还留在我身边。”

Without words to objectify and categorize our sensations and place them in relation to one another, we cannot evolve a tradition of what is real in the world.

如果没有语言来客观化和分类我们的感觉,并将它们彼此联系起来,我们就无法形成一个关于世界上真实事物的传统。

Intellectuals are people who believe that ideas are of more importance than values. That is to say, their own ideas and other people's values.

知识分子认为思想比价值更重要。也就是说,自己的想法和别人的价值观。

I've never been a fan of directors who clutter a piece with all sorts of crazy preconceptions or weird ideas.

我从来都不喜欢导演在作品中掺杂各种疯狂的先入之见或怪异的想法。