The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity... The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

  • -- Samuel Johnson 塞缪尔·约翰逊

头脑永远不会满足于眼前的事物,而是总是脱离当下,沉浸在未来幸福的计划中……人类心灵的自然飞行不是从快乐到快乐,而是从希望到希望。

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Immediately i felt my body crumbling, shaking so fast that the very atoms of my being seemed to dissolve, and then i was dissolving too, my emotions shattering me, unitl there was nothing left of me but silver dust- and a final longing stare of awe,of passion, of love.

我立刻感到自己的身体在崩溃,颤抖得如此之快,连我身上的每一个原子似乎都溶化了,然后我也溶化了,我的情感也在粉碎我,直到我身上只剩下银色的尘土——最后,我渴望地凝视着,充满敬畏、激情和爱。

The torment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and "mangled mind" leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.

人类挫折的折磨,无论其直接原因是什么,都是知道自我在监狱里,它的生命力和“残缺的思想”在孤独、浪费的自我冲突中流失。

Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.

我们国家的进步不会比教育的进步更快。人类的思维是我们的基本资源。

Why is it that when one man builds a wall, the next man immediately needs to know what's on the other side?

为什么当一个人建了一堵墙,另一个人马上就需要知道另一边是什么?