If we admit a thing so extraordinary as the creation of this world, it should seem that we admit something strange, and odd, and new to human apprehension, beyond any other miracle whatsoever.

  • -- George Berkeley 乔治伯克利

如果我们承认这个世界的创造是如此非凡的一件事,那么我们似乎就承认了一件人类所理解的、超越任何其他奇迹的、奇怪的、新奇的事情。

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It is my deliberate opinion that the one essential requisite of human welfare in all ways is scientific knowledge of human nature.

我经过深思熟虑后认为,人类福祉的一个基本条件是对人性的科学认识。

The strangest thing that human speech and human writing can do is create a metaphor. That is an amazing leap, is it not?

人类语言和文字所能做的最奇怪的事情就是创造一个隐喻。这是一个惊人的飞跃,不是吗?

The world turns on our every action, and our every omission, whether we know it or not.

不管我们知不知道,这个世界取决于我们的每一个行动和每一个疏忽。

Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love.

智慧是对属天事物的领悟,而精神是通过爱而上升的。

Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it.

嫉妒是对优越感的恐惧或恐惧:嫉妒我们在优越感下的不安。

I was at home then in the world of figures, but not in that of values.

那时,我在数字的世界里如鱼得水,而不是在价值的世界里。