The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it.

  • -- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg 利希滕贝格

自然作品中崇高的朴素往往源于观察者的崇高的短视。

相关名言

Grandeur and beauty are so very opposite, that you often diminish the one as you increase the other. Variety is most akin to the latter, simplicity to the former.

宏伟与美丽是如此的对立,以至于你常常在增加美与减少美的同时,也在减少美。多样性与后者最为相似,简单性与前者最为相似。

New England is the home of all that is good and noble with all her sternness and uncompromising opinions.

新英格兰是所有善良和高尚的人的家园,有着她所有的严厉和毫不妥协的观点。

All noble enthusiasms pass through a feverish stage, and grow wiser and more serene.

一切高尚的热情都要经过一个狂热的阶段,才会变得更加明智和宁静。