Scholarship was one thing, drudgery another. I very soon concluded that nothing would induce me to read, let alone make notes on, hundreds and hundreds of very, very, very boring books.

  • -- Simon Raven 西蒙·雷文

学问是一回事,苦差是另一回事。我很快得出结论,没有什么能吸引我去阅读,更不用说做笔记了,成百上千本非常、非常、非常无聊的书。

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The work with which we embark on this first volume of a series of theological studies is a work with which the philosophical person does not begin, but rather concludes.

我们开始这一系列神学研究第一卷的工作,并不是哲学人开始的工作,而是结束的工作。

Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life blood of real civilization.

公正的求知欲是真正文明的生命力。

Erudition - dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull.

博学-从书中抖出的灰尘变成了一个空头骨。