If we look into ourselves we discover propensities which declare that our intellects have arisen from a lower form; could our minds be made visible we should find them tailed.

  • -- William Winwood Reade 威廉·温伍德·里德

如果我们审视自己,我们就会发现一些倾向,这些倾向表明我们的智力来自于一种较低的形态;如果我们的思想被看得见,我们就会发现它们被尾随着。

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The fact is, every thinker, every philosopher, the moment he is forced to abandon his one-sided intellectual occupation by practical necessity, immediately returns to the general point of view of mankind.

事实上,每一个思想家,每一个哲学家,当他因为实际的需要而被迫放弃他片面的知识工作的时候,就立即回到人类的一般观点上来。

Getting older, I realize I've had a very fortunate life. I've had a budget that's allowed me to do just about any silly little thing the mind could conjure up, and I'm still alive and here.

随着年龄的增长,我意识到我有一个非常幸运的生活。我有一个预算,可以让我做任何脑子里想出来的傻事,而我还活着,还在这里。

What every genuine philosopher (every genuine man, in fact) craves most is praise although the philosophers generally call it recognition!

每一个真正的哲学家(事实上,每一个真正的人)最渴望的是赞美,尽管哲学家们通常称之为认可!

Strangely enough, they have a mind to till the soil, and the love of possessions is a disease in them.

奇怪的是,他们有耕种土地的想法,对财产的爱是他们的一种病。

I'm very polite by nature, even the voices in my head let each other finish their sentences.

我天生就很有礼貌,甚至我脑子里的声音都让对方把话说完。

Praise does not make anything better or worse.

表扬不会使事情变得更好或更糟。