The world is a perpetual caricature of itself; at every moment it is the mockery and the contradiction of what it is pretending to be.

  • -- George Santayana 乔治·桑塔亚纳

世界永远是对自己的讽刺;每时每刻,它都是对它所假装的东西的嘲弄和矛盾。

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The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.

永远无知的秘诀是:满足于你的观点,满足于你的知识。

Study with desire is real activity; without desire it is but the semblance and mockery of activity.

有欲望的学习是真正的活动;没有欲望,它只是活动的表象和嘲弄。

The moment a man begins to talk about technique that's proof that he is fresh out of ideas.

从一个人开始谈论技术的那一刻起,就证明他没有什么想法了。

Behavior is the perpetual revealing of us. What a man does, tells us what he is.

行为是我们永恒的启示。一个人所做的,告诉我们他是什么。

Look past your thoughts so you may drink the pure nectar of this moment.

超越你的思想,这样你才能喝到此刻的甘露。

It would be mockery to call such dreariness heaven at all.

把这样沉闷的地方叫做天堂,简直是一种嘲弄。