Given a choice between their worldview and the facts, it's always interesting how many people toss the facts.

  • -- Rebecca Solnit 索尔尼

如果要在他们的世界观和事实之间做出选择,有多少人抛弃事实总是很有趣的。

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Truths emerge from facts, but they dip forward into facts again and add to them; which facts again create or reveal new truth (the word is indifferent) and so on indefinitely. The 'facts' themselves meanwhile are not true. They simply are. Truth is the function of the beliefs that start and terminate among them.

真理从事实中产生,但它们又深入到事实中,并加以补充;这些事实又无限地创造或揭示新的真理(这个词是无关紧要的)等等。与此同时,“事实”本身并不真实。他们只是。真理是信仰的功能,信仰在真理中开始和结束。

I have always considered that choosing a companion for life was a very important affair and that my happyness or misery in this life depended on the choice.

我一直认为,选择一个人生伴侣是一件非常重要的事情,我今生的幸福或痛苦都取决于这个选择。

Blessed is the man who, having nothing to stay, abstains from giving us worthy evidence of the fact.

无事可留、不给我们明证的、这人便为有福。

It is one thing to make a choice and it is another thing to never have the chance.

做出选择是一回事,永远没有机会是另一回事。