The pains of disconcerted or frustrated habits, and the inherent pleasure there is in following them, are motives which nature has put into our wills without generally caring to inform us why; and she sometimes decrees, indeed, that her reasons shall not be ours.

  • -- Chauncey Wright 他的学生赖特

习惯所带来的痛苦,以及遵循习惯所带来的内在乐趣,都是大自然赋予我们意志的动机,通常我们并不在意为什么要这样做;她有时甚至命令说,她的理由决不是我们的。

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I'm enamored with the art world. Anytime you look at anything that's considered artistic, there's a commercial world around it: the ballet, opera, any kind of music. It can't exist without it.

我迷恋艺术世界。任何时候你看到任何被认为是艺术的东西,它周围都有一个商业世界:芭蕾,歌剧,任何一种音乐。没有它就不能存在。

Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power.

除了自得其乐之外,另一种最大的乐趣在于阻止别人自得其乐,或者更广泛地说,是阻止别人获得权力。

I don't smack him around. I don't yell at him. And if he wants to go to the park in his pajamas, I don't care.

我不打他。我不会对他大喊大叫。如果他想穿着睡衣去公园,我不在乎。

All the things I really like to do are either immoral, illegal or fattening.

所有我真正喜欢做的事情要么是不道德的,非法的,要么是使人发胖。

The current  health care system is neither healthy, caring, nor a system.

当前的卫生保健系统既不健康,也不关怀,也不是一个系统。

Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen.

让那些没有你可能永远不会被看到的东西变得可见。