The spirit of logical analysis should in practice blend with the practical pressure for the adoption of some form of international language, but it should not allow itself to be stampeded by it.

  • -- Edward Sapir 爱德华·萨皮尔

逻辑分析的精神在实践中应与采用某种形式的国际语言的实际压力相结合,但不应使自己受到这种压力的阻碍。

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The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.

那么,网络,或者图案,一个既感性又有逻辑性的网络,一个优雅而富有内涵的结构:那就是风格,那是文学艺术的基础。

Definition of a Statistician: A man who believes figures don't lie, but admits than under analysis some of them won't stand up either.

统计学家的定义:一个人相信数据不会说谎,但他承认,在分析中,有些数据也站不住脚。

The logical process will often be the safe one. I tend, when I'm given that choice, to go the way that's not safe.

逻辑过程通常是安全的。当我有选择的时候,我倾向于走那条不安全的路。

To substitute Scripture for the self-revealing Spirit is to put the dead letter in the place of the living Word.

用圣经代替自显的灵,就是用死书代替活字。

The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy.

人的精神需要成就,需要成就,需要胜利,需要快乐。

Analysis does not transform consciousness.

分析不能改变意识。