The mind of the Renaissance was not a pilgrim mind, but a sedentary city mind, like that of the ancients.

  • -- George Santayana 乔治·桑塔亚纳

文艺复兴时期的思想不是朝圣者的思想,而是像古人一样,定居于城市的思想。

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We may affirm, then, that the main drift of the later Renaissance was away from a humanism that favored a free expansion toward a humanism that was in the highest degree disciplinary and selective.

我们可以肯定的是,文艺复兴后期的主要趋势是从人文主义转向人文主义,这种人文主义倾向于自由的扩展到最高程度的学科和选择性。

The Renaissance of the fifteenth century was, in many things, great rather by what it designed then by what it achieved.

在许多方面,十五世纪的文艺复兴之所以伟大,与其说是由于它所设计的,不如说是由于它所取得的成就。

The gentleman puts me in mind of an old hen which persists in setting after her eggs are taken away.

这位先生使我想起了一只老母鸡,它在蛋被取走后还坚持要下蛋。

I'm a historian in my own mind.

在我看来,我是个历史学家。