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。

A commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings out that it is a very strange thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties.

一件商品乍一看似乎是一件极其明显的小事。但它的分析表明,这是一件非常奇怪的事情,充满了形而上学的微妙之处和神学上的细微差别。

One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has not already been said by one philosopher or another.

人们无法想象有什么事情是如此奇怪和难以置信,以至于没有一个或另一个哲学家说过。

All thought is naught but a footnote to Plato.

所有的思想都不过是柏拉图的一个脚注。