In civilized life, where the happiness, and indeed almost the existence, of man depends so much upon the opinion of his fellow men, he is constantly acting a studied part.

  • -- Washington Irving 华盛顿欧文

在文明生活中,一个人的幸福,甚至几乎是他的生存,在很大程度上取决于他的同胞的意见,他不断地扮演着一个研究的角色。

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There is a limit to the legitimate interference of collective opinion with individual independence: and to find that limit, and maintain it against encroachment, is as indispensable to a good condition of human affairs, as protection against politica.

集体意见对个人独立的合法干涉是有限度的,找到这种限度并保持它不受侵犯,就像保护人们不受政治侵害一样,对人类事务的良好状态也是必不可少的。

For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise.

由于长命百岁,我经历过许多这样的事例:由于获得了更好的信息或更充分的考虑,我不得不改变自己的观点,甚至在一些重要的问题上也是如此。我曾经认为这些观点是正确的,但后来发现事实并非如此。

I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.

我认为戏剧是所有艺术形式中最伟大的,是一个人与另一个人分享作为一个人是什么的最直接的方式。

The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization.

个人的自由不是文明的礼物。在任何文明出现之前,它是最伟大的。

Many plays-certainly mine-are like blank checks. The actors and directors put their own signatures on them.

许多游戏——当然是我的——就像空白支票。演员和导演在上面签名。

As long as art is the beauty parlor of civilization, neither art nor civilization is secure.

只要艺术是文明的美容院,艺术和文明都不是安全的。