Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage, not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny, but to rouse them from lethargy, and to aid them to judge for themselves.

  • -- William Ellery Channing 钱宁

伟大的思想使别人变得伟大。他们的优越性是要利用的,不是要把群众变成知识分子的附庸,不是要在他们之上建立一种精神上的专制,而是要把他们从昏睡中唤醒,帮助他们自己作出判断。

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We have three centers: the emotional center, the intellectual center, and the physical body center. Each one of them has its own intelligence. How much better would we be if all three were working in unison?

我们有三个中心:情感中心、智力中心和身体中心。他们每个人都有自己的智慧。如果三个人齐心协力,我们会有多好?

The intellectual evolution of the race consists in an increase in the number, delicacy, complexity, permanence and speed of formation of such associations.

种族的智力进化包括这种关联的数量、精细程度、复杂性、持久性和形成速度的增加。

The service of philosophy, of speculative culture, towards the human spirit, is to rouse, to startle it to a life of constant and eager observation.

哲学,思辨文化,对人类精神的服务,就是唤醒它,使它受到惊吓,使它生活在不断的、热切的观察之中。

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.

困难是用来振奋人心的,而不是用来打击士气的。人类的精神是通过冲突而变得强大。

High aims form high characters, and great objects bring out great minds.

崇高的目标造就崇高的品格,伟大的目标造就伟大的心灵。

Distinction is the consequence, never the object of a great mind.

区别是结果,而不是伟大思想的目的。