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Just as we outgrow a pair of trousers, we outgrow acquaintances, libraries, principles, etc., at times before they're worn out and times - and this is the worst of all - before we have new ones.

  • -- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg 利希滕贝格

就像我们长大后不再穿裤子一样，我们也不再穿熟人、图书馆、原则等等，有时裤子还没穿坏，有时——这是最糟糕的——还没有新裤子。

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Sometimes it's just harder to remind yourself about what you're doing and why you're doing it... Other times, you have a great desire for it, but physically you're not responding the way you want. That presents other challenges. Then sometimes it all comes together.

有时候，你很难提醒自己在做什么，为什么要做……其他时候，你对它有很大的渴望，但身体上你的反应却不是你想要的。这也带来了其他挑战。但有时，这一切又交织在一起。

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A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that action, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment to friends; and that the most liberal professions of good-will are very far from being the surest marks of it

对世界稍作了解就会使每个人相信，衡量一个人对朋友的感情的真正标准是行动，而不是语言;而且，最慷慨的善意表白远非最可靠的标志

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Phrenology taught us that the mind thinks by means of the brain, is liable to become fatigued by too long attention, as the locomotive muscles are by too much walking; and I therefore proposed to them to take a brief rest.

颅相学告诉我们，大脑通过大脑思考，很容易因为太长时间的注意力而疲劳，就像火车头的肌肉由于走得太多而疲劳一样;因此，我建议他们休息一下。

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During our stay in London for the first time I was able to establish personal contact with some of the organic chemists, whose work I knew and admired from the literature. I found them most gracious and helpful.

在伦敦逗留期间，我第一次与一些有机化学家建立了个人联系，我从文献中了解并欣赏他们的工作。我发现他们非常和蔼可亲，乐于助人。

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All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.

所有的变化，即使是最渴望的变化，都有其忧郁之处;因为我们留下的是我们自身的一部分;我们必须先死一种生命，才能进入另一种生命。

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We should burn all libraries and allow to remain only that which everyone knows by heart. A beautiful age of the legend would then begin.

我们应该烧毁所有的图书馆，只保留那些每个人都熟记在心的东西。一个美丽的传奇时代将开始。

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I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

我认为每一天都是迷途的，在这一天里我没有结识一个新朋友。

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A library implies an act of faith.

图书馆意味着一种信仰的行为。

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