Universities are the cathedrals of the modern age. They shouldn't have to justify their existence by utilitarian criteria.

  • -- David Lodge 大卫·洛奇

大学是现代的大教堂。他们不应该用功利主义的标准来证明他们的存在。

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You seem to think that the only genuine existence evil can have is conscious existence - that no one is evil unless he admits it to himself. I disagree.

你似乎认为,邪恶能拥有的唯一真正存在是有意识的存在——没有人是邪恶的,除非他自己承认它。我不同意。

Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future.

存在不过是在过去、现在和未来的剧烈流动中,不稳定地获得相关性。