Man is largely a creature of habit, and many of his activities are more or less automatic reflexes from the stimuli of his environment.

  • -- G. Stanley Hall 斯坦利·霍尔

人在很大程度上是一种习惯的动物,他的许多活动或多或少是来自环境刺激的自动反应。

相关名言

You know, if you have a zoo you don't want the other creatures to see you. You want them to hang out and act properly and, you know, when the monkeys will come and ask for the bananas, they won't act like monkeys. If you want them to act on what their true nature is, you've got to leave them alone.

如果你有一个动物园,你不想让其他动物看到你。你想让他们出去玩,举止得体,你知道,当猴子来要香蕉时,他们不会表现得像猴子一样。如果你想让他们按照他们的本性行事,你就得让他们自己待着。

Traditional marriage between a man and a woman has been a cornerstone of our society for generations. If we are going to change that, it ought to be done by the will of the people.

几代人以来,传统的男女婚姻一直是我们社会的基石。如果我们要改变这种状况,就应该靠人民的意愿。

One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and makes it hard for it to free itself from them.

人们可能会把习惯称为道德摩擦:一种阻止思维掠过事物,但又将其与之联系起来,使其难以摆脱的东西。

It is an old habit with theologians to beat the living with the bones of the dead.

用死人的骨头打活人是神学家的老习惯。

One man's "magic" is another man's engineering. "Supernatural" is a null word.

一个人的“魔法”是另一个人的工程。“超自然”是一个空词。

If there is one creature that represents my essence, it's butterflies.

如果有一种生物代表了我的本质,那就是蝴蝶。