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If any philosopher had been asked for a definition of infinity, he might have produced some unintelligible rigmarole, but he would certainly not have been able to give a definition that had any meaning at all.

  • -- Bertrand Russell 罗素

如果有哪个哲学家被要求对无穷大下一个定义，他可能会说出一些难以理解的冗长乏味的话，但他肯定无法给出一个有任何意义的定义。

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A philosopher is, no doubt, entitled to examine even those distinctions that are to be found in the structure of all languages... in that case, such a distinction may be imputed to a vulgar error, which ought to be corrected in philosophy.

毫无疑问，哲学家甚至有权研究所有语言结构中的那些区别……在这种情况下，这种区别可以归结为一种庸俗的错误，这种错误应当在哲学上加以纠正。

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Aristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have fewer teeth than men, by the simple device of asking Mrs. Aristotle to keep her mouth open while he counted.

亚里斯多德本可以避免认为女人的牙齿比男人少的错误，只要他数的时候让亚里斯多德夫人张着嘴。

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The real scientist is ready to bear privation and, if need be, starvation rather than let anyone dictate to him which direction his work must take.

真正的科学家愿意忍受贫困，如果需要，也愿意忍受饥饿，而不让任何人来指挥他的工作应该朝哪个方向走。

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What the devil is the point of surviving, going on living, when it's a drag? But you see, that's what people do.

活下去到底有什么意义，活下去又有什么意义?但你看，人们就是这么做的。

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The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.

哥特式建筑的原则是无限的，这是可以想象的。

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