My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is.

  • -- Augustine of Hippo 河马的奥古斯丁

我的心把它的思想从经验中抽离出来,把它自己从那一大堆互相矛盾的感官形象中抽离出来,以便找出那沐浴在其中的光明是什么……这样,只要匆匆一瞥,它就达到了存在的视觉。

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When I stepped out into the bright sunlight from the darkness of the movie house, I had only two things on my mind: Paul Newman and a ride home.

当我从黑暗的电影院走到明亮的阳光下,我脑子里只有两件事:保罗纽曼和一个回家的车。

It is safe to make a choice of your thoughts, scarcely ever safe to express them all.

选择你的思想是安全的,把它们全部表达出来几乎是不安全的。

To understand the immeasurable, the mind must be extraordinarily quiet, still.

要理解不可估量的东西,头脑必须出奇地平静、平静。

If you keep all those thoughts inside, your brain will explode.

如果你把这些想法都藏在心里,你的大脑就会爆炸。