The philosophy of the common man is an old wife that gives him no pleasure, yet he cannot live without her, and resents any aspersions that strangers may cast on her character.

  • -- George Santayana 乔治·桑塔亚纳

一个普通男人的哲学是,一个老婆子不能给他带来快乐,然而没有她他就不能生活,并且憎恨任何陌生人对她性格的诽谤。

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Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars - mere globs of gas atoms. I, too, can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more?

诗人说,科学剥夺了星星的美丽——仅仅是由气体原子组成的球体。我也能在沙漠之夜看到星星,感觉到它们。但我看到的是多还是少呢?

The journey is what brings us happiness, not the destination.

旅行带给我们的是快乐,而不是目的地。