The simplest and most psychologically satisfying explanation of any observed phenomenon is that it happened that way because someone wanted it to happen that way.

  • -- Thomas Sowell 托马斯·索厄尔

对于任何观察到的现象,最简单、心理上最令人满意的解释是,它是以这种方式发生的,因为有人希望它以这种方式发生。

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The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed long before the public knows what has happened.

公众接受或拒绝现代艺术中的任何东西,这种观念仅仅是浪漫主义小说。比赛结束了,奖杯在公众知道发生了什么之前就已经分发出去了。

The simplest principles become difficult of practice, when habits, formed in error, have been fixed by time, and the simplest truths hard to receive when prejudice has warped the mind.

当错误养成的习惯被时间固定下来时,最简单的原则在实践中就会变得困难;当偏见扭曲了人们的思想时,最简单的真理就会变得难以接受。

I think everything happens for a reason and all the things that happened to me - good, bad - I'm glad they did. It's made me ready for life, for adulthood.

我认为每件事的发生都是有原因的,所有发生在我身上的事情——好的,坏的——我很高兴他们这样做了。它让我为生活做好了准备,为成年做好了准备。

Surely it is one of the simplest laws of taste in dress, that it shall not attract undue attention from the wearer to the worn.

毫无疑问,这是穿衣品味的最简单法则之一,那就是它不会引起穿者对穿者的过分关注。