The essence of the Liberal outlook lies not in what opinions are held, but in how they are held: instead of being held dogmatically, they are held tentatively, and with a consciousness that new evidence may at any moment lead to their abandonment.

  • -- Bertrand Russell 罗素

自由主义观点的本质不在于人们持有什么样的观点,而在于人们如何持有这些观点:人们不是武断地持有这些观点,而是试探性地持有这些观点,并意识到新的证据随时可能导致人们抛弃这些观点。

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The big breakthrough for me was, once I stopped disliking conservatives and could actually see what they were right about, they showed me a lot of things that liberals were wrong about. But at the same time, I think there are some things that liberals are right about that conservatives have trouble seeing.

对我来说,最大的突破是,一旦我不再讨厌保守派,能够真正看到他们在哪些方面是正确的,他们向我展示了自由派在很多方面是错误的。但与此同时,我认为自由主义者在某些方面是正确的,而保守派却难以看到。

The recognition of the art that informs all pure science need not mean the abandonment for it of all present art, rather it will mean the completion of the transformation of art that has already begun.

对所有纯科学的艺术的承认并不意味着对所有现有艺术的放弃,而是意味着已经开始的艺术改造的完成。

I had to get in touch with the source, I had to go back into my abandonment issues with my mother, I had to go into issues with my father I hadn't even looked at before.

我必须与消息来源取得联系,我必须回到我与母亲的遗弃问题,我必须回到我与父亲的问题,这些问题我以前从未见过。

Their shoulders held the sky suspended; They stood, and earth’s foundations stay; What God abandoned, these defended, And saved the sum of things for pay.

他们的肩膀把天空托起;他们站住,地的根基稳固。上帝抛弃了什么,这些人就捍卫什么,并把所有的东西都存起来以换取报酬。

We who are liberal and progressive know that the poor are our equals in every sense except that of being equal to us.

我们这些自由进步的人知道,穷人与我们在任何意义上都是平等的,除了与我们平等之外。

A work of art is never finished. It is merely abandoned.

一件艺术品永远不会完成。它只是被遗弃了。