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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Lessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture the heart through the groundwork of a story, which engages the passions.

当智慧的课程通过故事的基础来抓住我们的内心时,它对我们的影响最大。

The passions are like fire and water: good servants but bad masters.

热情似火似水:好仆人坏主人。

I never read a book before previewing it; it prejudices a man so.

我从来没有在预览前读过一本书;它使人如此偏见。

Love is metaphysical gravity.

爱是形而上的重力。

Prejudices save time.

偏见节省时间。