Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.

  • -- John Adams 约翰·亚当斯

根据我的形而上学,自由是一种智力主体的自我决定的力量。它意味着思考、选择和权力。

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Once you have an animal, you have to commit to it. They need a sense of freedom, but, of course, they must have some boundaries. I am against hitting them though; just send the vibe and that will do it.

一旦你有了一只动物,你就必须对它负责。他们需要一种自由的感觉,但是,当然,他们必须有一些界限。不过我反对打他们;只要发送氛围就可以了。

To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind.

把想象看成形而上学,就是把想象看成生活的一部分,把想象看成生活的一部分,就是认识到技巧的程度。我们活在思想里。

He was a sociologist; he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out.

他是一位社会学家;他早年就陷入了智力上的混乱,一直没能摆脱出来。

It's not the most intellectual job in the world, but I do have to know the letters.

这不是世界上最聪明的工作,但我必须知道这些字母。

Slavery and freedom cannot exist together.

奴隶制和自由不能共存。