It is doubtless one of Aristotle's great services that he conceived so clearly the truth that literature is a thing that grows and has a history.

  • -- George Gilbert Aime Murray 乔治·吉尔伯特·艾梅·默里

毫无疑问,亚里士多德的伟大贡献之一,就是他如此清晰地构想出这样一个真理,即文学是一种不断发展并具有历史的东西。

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One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has not already been said by one philosopher or another.

人们无法想象有什么事情是如此奇怪和难以置信,以至于没有一个或另一个哲学家说过。

An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence.

一个不能写诗的时代,除了颓废者的聪明才智之外,什么文学也不能写。

The rest, called literature, is a dossier of human imbecility for the guidance of future professors.

其余的,称为文学,是人类愚蠢的卷宗,供未来的教授参考。

So what is discord at one level of your being is harmony at another level.

所以,在你们存在的某一层面上的不和谐,就是在另一层面上的和谐。