That's the fundamental flaw in the illusion that writers like to maintain, the idea that we can craft anything approaching the truth.

  • -- Carolyn Parkhurst 卡罗琳·帕克丝特

这是作家们喜欢坚持的幻想的根本缺陷,他们认为我们可以创造出任何接近真相的东西。

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Only reason can convince us of those three fundamental truths without a recognition of which there can be no effective liberty: that what we believe is not necessarily true; that what we like is not necessarily good; and that all questions are open.

只有理性才能使我们相信这三个基本真理,而不承认这三个真理,就不可能有真正的自由:我们相信的不一定是真理;我们喜欢的不一定是好的;所有的问题都是开放的。

In all our associations; in all our agreements let us never lose sight of this fundamental maxim - that all power was originally lodged in, and consequently is derived from, the people.

在我们所有的交往中;在我们所有的协议中,让我们永远不要忘记这一基本原则,即一切权力最初是属于人民的,因此也是来自人民的。