Even if one is interested only in one's own society, which is one's prerogative, one can understand that society much better by comparing it with others.

  • -- Peter Ludwig Berger 彼得·伯格

即使一个人只对他自己的社会感兴趣,这是他的特权,他也可以通过与他人比较来更好地理解这个社会。

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It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But the half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor.

指出皇帝没有穿衣服一直是小孩子和傻子的特权。但是,笨蛋还是笨蛋,皇帝还是皇帝。

Though man a thinking being is defined, Few use the grand prerogative of mind. How few think justly of the thinking few! How many never think, who think they do!

虽然人是有思想的存在,但很少有人使用心灵这一至高无上的特权。很少有人公正地看待少数人的思想!有多少人从不思考,又有多少人自以为在思考!

Comparing what you see during an eclipse to the darkness at night is like comparing an ocean to a teardrop.

把你在日食期间看到的景象与夜晚的黑暗作比较,就像把海洋比作一滴眼泪。