Our culture peculiarly honors the act of blaming, which it takes as the sign of virtue and intellect.

  • -- Lionel Trilling 特里林

我们的文化特别推崇指责行为,认为这是美德和智慧的标志。

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What is right? Simply put, it is any assignment in which the photographer has a significant spiritual stake... spiritually driven work constitutes the core of a photographer's contribution to culture.

什么是正确的?简单地说,这是任何一个任务,其中摄影师有重大的精神风险…精神驱动的作品是摄影师对文化贡献的核心。

Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the great instrument of ambition.

伟大的抱负,对真正的优越性的渴望,对领导和指导的渴望,似乎完全是人类所特有的,而演讲是实现抱负的伟大工具。

The welfare culture tells the man he is not a necessary part of the family; he feels dispensable, his wife knows he is dispensable, his children sense it.

福利文化告诉男人他不是家庭的必要组成部分;他觉得自己可有可无,他的妻子知道他可有可无,他的孩子们也感觉到这一点。

For a solitary animal egoism is a virtue that tends to preserve and improve the species: in any kind of community it becomes a destructive vice.

因为孤立的动物利己主义是一种倾向于保护和改善物种的美德:在任何一种群体中,它都是一种破坏性的恶习。

The intellect of man is forced to choose Perfection of the life or of the work.

人类的智慧被迫选择完美的生活或工作。

Often devotion to virtue arises from sated desire.

对美德的忠诚往往源于满足的欲望。

The intellect is always fooled by the heart.

智慧总是被心愚弄。