Logicians have but ill defined As rational the human mind. Logic, they say, belongs to man, But let them prove it if they can.

  • -- Oliver Goldsmith 奥利弗·戈德史密斯

逻辑学家的定义很模糊 作为理性的人类思想。 他们说,逻辑属于人类, 但如果可以的话,就让他们来证明吧。

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I think a reason that a lot of people feel politically paralysed is that it used to be clear how power was organised. But those who have their hands on the levers of popular culture today have great power - and it isn't even clear who they are.

我认为,许多人感到政治瘫痪的一个原因是,过去人们很清楚权力是如何组织起来的。但是,那些掌握着当今流行文化杠杆的人拥有巨大的权力——甚至不清楚他们是谁。

A desire arises in the mind. It is satisfied immediately another comes. In the interval which separates two desires a perfect calm reigns in the mind. It is at this moment freed from all thought, love or hate.

一种欲望在心中升起。它立刻满足于另一个到来。在分离两种欲望的间隙里,一种完全平静的心境支配着我们的心灵。在这一刻,它从所有的思想、爱或恨中解脱出来。

A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.

一个被新体验拉伸的心灵永远不会回到它的旧维度。

Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.

理性是真理的自然秩序;但是想象力是意义的器官。

Logic is neither a science nor an art, but a dodge.

逻辑既不是科学也不是艺术,而是一种逃避。

There's always some kind of hidden logic.

总有一些隐藏的逻辑。