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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The verbal interpretation, on the other hand, i.e. the metaphysics of quantum physics, is on far less solid ground. In fact, in more than forty years physicists have not been able to provide a clear metaphysical model.

另一方面,口头解释,即量子物理学的形而上学,则没有那么坚实的基础。事实上,四十多年来,物理学家们一直未能提供一个清晰的形而上学模型。

We regard intelligence as man's main characteristic and we know that there is no superiority which intelligence cannot confer on us, no inferiority for which it cannot compensate.

我们认为智力是人类的主要特征,我们知道没有智力不能赋予我们的优势,也没有智力不能弥补的劣势。

There have not been any troughs as regards my work. There's never been a trough of my assurance.

我的工作没有任何波折。我从来没有信心不足过。

Two half philosophers will probably never a whole metaphysician make.

两个一半的哲学家可能永远不会成为一个完整的形而上学家。