To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind.

  • -- Wallace Stevens 华莱士·史蒂文斯

把想象看成形而上学,就是把想象看成生活的一部分,把想象看成生活的一部分,就是认识到技巧的程度。我们活在思想里。

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Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.

传统的人们因背离传统而愤怒,很大程度上是因为他们认为这种背离是对自己的批评。

The regard one shows economy, is like that we show an old aunt who is to leave us something at last.

一个人对经济的重视,就像我们对一位老阿姨的重视一样,她最终会给我们留下一些东西。

I teach metaphysics and pastor a church.

我教玄学,给教堂当牧师。

Metaphysics is a science.

形而上学是一门科学。