Our prejudices are our mistresses; reason is at best our wife, very often heard indeed, but seldom minded.

  • -- Philip Dormer 菲利普·多默

我们的偏见就是我们的情妇;理性充其量是我们的妻子,确实经常听到,但很少在意。

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When a good man lends himself to the advocacy of slavery, he must, at least for a time, feel himself to be any where but at home, amongst his new thoughts, doctrines, and modes of reasoning.

当一个好人投身于奴隶制的倡导时,他必须至少在一段时间内,在他的新思想、学说和推理模式中,感到自己除了在家里之外,什么地方都是自在的。

It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it.

孤独是好的,因为孤独是困难的;有些事情是困难的,这一定是我们做这件事的一个原因。

I don't believe things happen in vain. I believe they happen for a reason.

我不相信事情会白白发生。我相信它们的发生是有原因的。

Prejudices are what fools use for reason.

偏见是愚人用来推理的东西。