It seems that the creative faculty and the critical faculty cannot exist together in their highest perfection.

  • -- W. Somerset Maugham 威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆

似乎创造性的能力和批判性的能力不能同时存在于它们的最高完美中。

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There are unknown forces in nature; when we give ourselves wholly to her, without reserve, she lends them to us; she shows us these forms, which our watching eyes do not see, which our intelligence does not understand or suspect.

自然界中存在着未知的力量;当我们毫无保留地把自己完全奉献给她时,她就把它们借给我们;她向我们展示了这些形式,这些形式是我们观察的眼睛看不到的,是我们的智慧无法理解或怀疑的。

The only thing we don't do together is get in front of an actor and show any indecision at all about what we think. We don't always agree, so we meet privately, then one or the other will approach the actor.

我们唯一不一起做的事就是当着演员的面,对我们的想法表现出犹豫不决。我们并不总是意见一致,所以我们私下见面,然后其中一个或另一个会接近演员。

On a group of theories one can found a school; but on a group of values one can found a culture, a civilization, a new way of living together among men.

一个人可以根据一组理论建立一所学校;但在一组价值观上,人们可以找到一种文化,一种文明,一种人类共同生活的新方式。

Since new developments are the products of a creative mind, we must therefore stimulate and encourage that type of mind in every way possible.

由于新的发展是创造性思维的产物,因此我们必须以一切可能的方式刺激和鼓励这种思维。