From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.

  • -- Aldous Huxley 奥尔德斯·赫胥黎

从他们的经验或他人(历史)的记录经验中,人们只能学到他们的激情和形而上学的偏见允许他们学到的东西。

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All the dark, malevolent Passions of the Soul are roused and exerted; its mild and amiable affections are suppressed; and with them, virtuous Principles are laid prostrate.

灵魂中所有黑暗、邪恶的激情都被激发和发挥出来;它温和可亲的感情被压抑了;有了他们,高尚的原则就会被推翻。

Some one has said that most of us don't think, we just occasionally rearrange our prejudices.

有人说我们大多数人不思考,只是偶尔重新整理一下我们的偏见。

I stopped acting because I had other passions I wanted to pursue.

我停止演戏是因为我有其他我想追求的激情。

I am free of all prejudices. I hate every one equally.

我没有任何偏见。我同样恨每一个人。

Love is metaphysical gravity.

爱是形而上的重力。