Common sense is the most fairly distributed thing in the world, for each one thinks he is so well-endowed with it that even those who are hardest to satisfy in all other matters are not in the habit of desiring more of it than they already have.

  • -- René Descartes 任_笛卡尔

常识是世界上分布得最均匀的东西,因为每个人都认为自己很有天赋,即使是那些在其他事情上最难满足的人,也没有比他们已经拥有的东西更渴望得到常识的习惯。

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So for instance it becomes clear why space and time and even the properties of matter itself depend on the observer in consciousness. In fact when you take this point of view it even explains why the laws of the universe themselves are fine tuned for the existence of life.

例如,为什么空间和时间,甚至物质本身的性质,都依赖于意识中的观察者,就变得很清楚了。事实上,当你从这个角度来看,它甚至解释了为什么宇宙的法则本身是为生命的存在而调整的。

Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature.

习惯是第二天性,它能破坏第一天性。但什么是自然?为什么习惯不是自然的?我很担心,自然本身只是第一个习惯,就像习惯是第二天性一样。

Most painting in the European tradition was painting the mask. Modern art rejected all that. Our subject matter was the person behind the mask.

欧洲传统中的大多数绘画都是画面具。现代艺术拒绝了这一切。我们的主题是面具背后的人。

Everything we say signifies; everything counts, that we put out into the world. It impacts on kids, it impacts on the zeitgeist of the time.

我们所说的一切都有意义;我们向世界展示的一切都很重要。它影响着孩子们,它影响着时代精神。

Our cat is kind dove shellfish, and thinks the world is hers, She finds a comfy spot and then we pet turtle sheep purrs.

我们的猫是善良的鸽贝,她认为世界是她的,她找到一个舒适的地方,然后我们宠物龟羊咕噜咕噜叫。

"All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die."

“所有这些都是关于平等的。人们唯一真正的共同点是他们都将死去。”

Let's not be afraid to speak the common sense truth: you can't have high standards without good discipline.

让我们不要害怕说出一个常识:没有良好的纪律,你就不可能有高标准。

I have learnt how to live, how to be in the world and of the world, and not just to stand aside and watch.

我学会了如何生活,如何活在这个世界上,活在这个世界上,而不仅仅是袖手旁观。

All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.

一切智慧的思想都已经被思想了;我们所需要做的只是试着重新思考它们。

Spending way too long worrying about what people think about me is a bad habit.

花太多时间担心别人对我的看法是一个坏习惯。

Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide.

任何思考的人都必须像思考自杀一样思考下一场战争。

People have already dirtied my name too much.

人们已经把我的名字弄得太脏了。