For people who have no critical acumen, a state is a mythical entity, for those who think critically it is a rational fiction, created by man in order to facilitate human coexistence.

  • -- Friedrich Durrenmatt 迪伦马特

对于没有批判性思维的人来说,国家是一个虚构的实体;对于那些批判性思维的人来说,国家是一个理性的虚构,是人类为了促进人类共存而创造的。

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Writing by myself, I spread that out more. I'll spend more time on a song then. I'm more critical about it, because there's no one else in the room to tell me, 'That's really not translating. I'm not getting what you're saying.' So, I'm constantly rewriting it, thinking, 'No, that's fine,' and going back.

独自写作,我把它扩展得更广。我会花更多的时间在一首歌上。我对此更加挑剔,因为房间里没有其他人告诉我,‘这真的不是翻译。我不明白你在说什么。所以,我不断地重写它,心里想着,‘不,没关系,’然后就回去了。

There are many things that people do happily that I can't imagine why they would do it... But I have to say that even though I am critical or judgmental of society at large, I'm not critical of people individually. We are who we are.

有很多事情人们做得很开心,我无法想象他们为什么会这样做……但我必须说,尽管我对整个社会持批评或评判态度,但我并不对个人持批评态度。我们就是我们。

Starbucks is my main fix and it's usually you people working in there - sometimes they're actually shaking. It just makes me feel horrendous because I've been in that situation.

星巴克是我的主要解决方案,通常是你们在那里工作——有时他们真的在发抖。这让我觉得很可怕,因为我也经历过这种情况。

What's happened - in our country, anyhow - is that the young people have shied away from the formality of the concert hall, that tie - and - tails philharmonic image.

不管怎么说,在我们国家发生的事情是,年轻人已经不再拘泥于音乐厅的形式,不再拘泥于交响乐团的形象。

Every daring attempt to make a great change in existing conditions, every lofty vision of new possibilities for the human race, has been labeled Utopian.

每一项对现有条件作出重大改变的大胆尝试,每一项对人类新的可能性的崇高设想,都被贴上乌托邦的标签。

After all my probing into the human brain, I should still be aware of mysteries and come up with them myself.

在我对人类大脑进行了所有的探索之后,我仍然应该意识到其中的奥秘,并自己去发现它们。