When a philosopher says something that is true then it is trivial. When he says something that is not trivial then it is false.

  • -- Carl Friedrich Gauss 高斯

当一个哲学家说的是真的,那么它就是微不足道的。当他说一些不平凡的事情时,那就是错误的。

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I feel often that we don't have the right language to talk about emotions in disasters. Everyone is on edge, of course, but it also pulls people away from a lot of trivial anxieties and past and future concerns and gratuitous preoccupations that we have, and refocuses us in a very intense way.

我经常觉得我们没有正确的语言来谈论灾难中的情绪。当然,每个人都处于紧张状态,但它也把人们从许多琐碎的焦虑、过去和未来的担忧以及我们拥有的不必要的关注中抽离出来,并以一种非常强烈的方式重新集中我们的注意力。

In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes.

在战争中,重要的事件是由微不足道的原因造成的。

The need to be right is the sign of a vulgar mind.

想做对的人是庸俗的标志。

We are all special cases.

我们都是特例。