Accuracy is, in every case, advantageous to beauty, and just reasoning to delicate sentiment. In vain would we exalt the one by depreciating the other.

  • -- David Hume 大卫休姆

在任何情况下,准确对美都是有利的,对细腻的情感则是合理的推理。我们贬低另一个人是徒劳的。

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The more one listens to ordinary conversations the more apparent it becomes that the reasoning faculties of the brain take little part in the direction of the vocal organs.

一个人听平常的谈话越多,他就越明显地感觉到,大脑的推理能力与发声器官的方向关系不大。

All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.

我们所有的推理最终都屈服于感觉。