Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature.

  • -- Blaise Pascal 巴斯卡

习惯是第二天性,它能破坏第一天性。但什么是自然?为什么习惯不是自然的?我很担心,自然本身只是第一个习惯,就像习惯是第二天性一样。

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Natural Selection never made it come to pass, as a habit of nature, that an unsupported stone should move downwards rather than upwards. It applies to no part of inorganic nature, and is very limited even in the phenomena of organic life.

自然选择从来没有让一块没有支撑的石头向下移动而不是向上移动成为自然的一种习惯。它并不适用于无机自然的任何部分,甚至在有机生命的现象中也非常有限。

Life does not accommodate you, it shatters you. It is meant to, and it couldn't do it better. Every seed destroys its container or else there would be no fruition.

生活不能包容你,它会让你崩溃。这是命中注定的,而且它不能做得更好。每粒种子都会破坏它的容器,否则就不会有果实。

When I see my kids totally into their Legos, it brings me back to the days I was hanging out and playing with my monster models. It brings me there in a second.

当我看到我的孩子们完全沉浸在他们的乐高玩具中时,我想起了我和我的怪物模型一起玩耍的日子。我马上就到了。

I believe in second chances, but I don't believe in third or fourth chances.

我相信第二次机会,但我不相信第三次或第四次机会。

It destroys the craft not to learn it.

不学它就会毁了这门手艺。

A habit does not a monk make.

和尚不能养成习惯。