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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I don't mind being a symbol but I don't want to become a monument. There are monuments all over the Parliament Buildings and I've seen what the pigeons do to them.

我不介意成为一个象征,但我不想成为一座纪念碑。国会大厦里到处都是纪念碑,我看到鸽子对它们做了什么。

When we fill our thoughts with right things, the wrong ones have no room to enter.

当我们用正确的东西填满我们的思想时,错误的东西就没有空间进入了。

Books open your mind, broaden your mind, and strengthen you as nothing else can.

书能开阔你的思维,开阔你的视野,使你比任何东西都更强大。

My thoughts are stars I can't fathom into constellations.

我的思想是我无法参透的星辰。