It has not been for nothing that the word has remained man's principal toy and tool: without the meanings and values it sustains, all man's other tools would be worthless.

  • -- Lewis Mumford 刘易斯·芒福德

这个词一直是人类的主要玩具和工具,这并不是没有原因的:如果没有它所承载的意义和价值,人类所有的其他工具都将毫无价值。

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The decisive moment in human evolution is perpetual. That is why the revolutionary spiritual movements that declare all former things worthless are in the right, for nothing has yet happened.

人类进化的决定性时刻是永恒的。这就是为什么那些宣称过去的一切都是毫无价值的革命精神运动是正确的,因为还没有发生任何事情。

If the egotist is weak, his egotism is worthless. If the egotist is strong, acute, full of distinctive character, his egotism is precious, and remains a possession of the race.

如果自负者软弱,他的利己主义就毫无价值。如果自我主义者是强大的、敏锐的、个性鲜明的,那么他的自我主义就是宝贵的,并且仍然是人类的财产。

There must be some one quality without which a work of art cannot exist; possessing which, in the least degree, no work is altogether worthless.

没有某种品质,艺术作品就不可能存在;拥有这些,在最小程度上,没有任何工作是完全没有价值的。

It is worthless talking about what we have been spared by death. Death grins at that I am sure. Death of all creation knows the value of life.

谈论我们幸免于死亡是毫无意义的。我敢肯定死神一定会笑。所有创造物的死亡都知道生命的价值。