As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.

  • -- Albert Schweitzer 艾伯特·施韦策

只要人不把自己的存在看成是理所当然的,而是把它看成一种深不可测的神秘的东西,思想就开始了。

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A lot of the changes are so gradual that they don't even qualify as news, or even as interesting: they're so mundane that we just take them for granted. But history shows that it's the mundane changes that are more important than the dramatic 'newsworthy' events.

很多变化都是循序渐进的,它们甚至不算是新闻,甚至不像新闻那么有趣:它们是如此平凡,以至于我们把它们视为理所当然。但历史表明,平凡的变化比戏剧性的“新闻价值”事件更重要。

We take so many of our freedoms for granted nowadays - I can travel where I like, I can have a baby when I like, I can do any job I want - but I do think chivalry has been lost a little bit.

如今,我们把很多自由都视为理所当然——我可以去任何我喜欢的地方旅行,我可以在我喜欢的时候生孩子,我可以做任何我想做的工作——但我确实认为骑士精神已经有点丧失了。

The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.

生存的全部秘密就是无所畏惧。不要害怕你会变成什么样子,不要依靠任何人。只有当你拒绝所有的帮助时,你才会获得自由。

We need to think more about the nature of rhetoric in anthropology. There isn't a body of knowledge and thought to fall back on in this regard.

我们需要更多地思考人类学修辞的本质。在这方面,没有一个知识和思想体系可以依靠。

I want to look at life - at the commonplaces of existence - as if we had just turned a corner and run into it for the first time.

我想看看生活——看看存在的平凡之处——就像我们刚刚拐过一个弯,第一次遇到它一样。

Censorship, like charity, should begin at home, but, unlike charity, it should end there.

像慈善一样,审查应该从国内开始,但与慈善不同,它应该在国内结束。

Nothing, of course, begins at the time you think it did.

当然,没有什么是从你认为它开始的时候开始的。

It is better to be thought perverse than insincere.

被人认为是乖僻的,总比不真诚的好。