The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.

  • -- Alfred North Whitehead 阿尔弗雷德北怀特黑德

对欧洲哲学传统最可靠的概括是,它由一系列柏拉图的脚注组成。

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In wonder all philosophy began, in wonder it ends, and admiration fill up the interspace; but the first wonder is the offspring of ignorance, the last is the parent of adoration

一切哲学都是在惊奇中开始的,在惊奇中结束,赞美充满了空间;但第一个奇迹是无知的产物,最后一个奇迹是崇拜之母

It is one of the consolations of philosophy that the benefit of showing how to dispense with a concept does not hinge on dispensing with it.

哲学的慰藉之一是,展示如何摒弃一个概念的好处并不取决于摒弃它。