Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts.

  • -- Clare Boothe Luce 卢斯

说谎能增加创造力,扩大自我,减少社会交往中的摩擦。

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There are unknown forces in nature; when we give ourselves wholly to her, without reserve, she lends them to us; she shows us these forms, which our watching eyes do not see, which our intelligence does not understand or suspect.

自然界中存在着未知的力量;当我们毫无保留地把自己完全奉献给她时,她就把它们借给我们;她向我们展示了这些形式,这些形式是我们观察的眼睛看不到的,是我们的智慧无法理解或怀疑的。

Social movements are at once the symptoms and the instruments of progress. Ignore them and statesmanship is irrelevant; fail to use them and it is weak.

社会运动既是进步的症状,又是进步的工具。忽视它们,政治家的才能就无关紧要了;如果不能使用它们,它就很弱。

It seems that the creative faculty and the critical faculty cannot exist together in their highest perfection.

似乎创造性的能力和批判性的能力不能同时存在于它们的最高完美中。

Money is to my social existence what health is to my body.

金钱之于我的社会存在,正如健康之于我的身体。