A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve.

  • -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. 小奥利弗·温德尔·霍姆斯

一个人可以通过问一个他无法回答的问题和尝试一个他无法完成的任务来实现他存在的目的。

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Here's the teaching point, if you're teaching kids about intelligence and policy: Intelligence does not absolve policymakers of responsibility to ask tough questions, and it doesn't absolve them of having curiosity about the consequences of their actions.

如果你教孩子们有关智力和政策的知识,这里有一个教学要点:智力不能免除决策者提出尖锐问题的责任,也不能免除他们对自己行为后果的好奇心。

Meaning is what essence becomes when it is divorced from the object of reference and wedded to the word.

意义是本质脱离了指称的对象而依附于词时所变成的东西。

When people ask me silly questions about my private life, I just say, I don't discuss that.

当人们问我一些关于我私生活的愚蠢问题时,我只是说,我不讨论这些。

Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.

只有当一个人日复一日地用生命去换别的东西而不是生命本身时,生命才有意义。