The progress of the world can certainly never come at all save by the modified action of the individual beings who compose the world.

  • -- George Eliot 乔治·艾略特

世界的进步当然永远不会到来,除非组成世界的各个个体采取改进的行动。

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Knowledge subverts love: in proportion as we penetrate our secrets, we come to loathe our kind, precisely because they resemble us.

知识会颠覆爱:当我们深入了解自己的秘密时,我们会越来越讨厌同类,恰恰是因为它们与我们相似。

Definitions are the guardians of rationality, the first line of defense against the chaos of mental disintegration.

定义是理性的守护者,是防止混乱的精神崩溃的第一道防线。