Uniform ideas originating among entire peoples unknown to each other must have a common ground of truth.

  • -- Giambattista Vico 维科

产生于互不相识的全体人民之间的统一思想必须有一个共同的真理基础。

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Put the argument into a concrete shape, into an image, some hard phrase, round and solid as a ball, which they can see and handle and carry home with them, and the cause is half won.

把这个论点变成一个具体的形状,一个形象,一些强硬的短语,像一个圆圆的实心的球,他们可以看到,可以处理,可以带回家,那么这个事业就成功了一半。

There are no poetic ideas; only poetic utterances.

没有诗意的想法;只有诗意的话语。