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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What is the meaning of the togetherness of the perceiving mind, in that peculiar modification of perceiving which makes it perceive not a star but a tree, and the tree itself, is a problem for philosophy.

感知心灵的统一性的意义是什么?在感知的特殊变化中,它不是感知一颗星星,而是一棵树,还有那棵树本身,这是哲学的一个问题。

I want people to come away from my book with questions. Questions about virtue and goodness. Not answers.

我希望人们带着问题离开我的书。关于美德和善良的问题。没有答案。

Judge others by their questions rather than by their answers.

判断别人要看他们的问题,而不是他们的答案。

Art is skill, that is the first meaning of the word.

艺术就是技巧,这是这个词的第一个意思。