Our fears are more numerous than our dangers, and we suffer more in our imagination than in reality.

  • -- Seneca the Younger 塞内卡

我们的恐惧比我们的危险更多,我们在想象中比在现实中遭受更多的痛苦。

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Relationships are all there is. Everything in the universe only exists because it is in relationship to everything else. Nothing exists in isolation. We have to stop pretending we are individuals that can go it alone.

人际关系就是一切。 宇宙中的一切之所以存在,只是因为它是存在的 和其他一切的关系。没有任何事物是孤立存在的。 我们必须停止假装我们是可以独立完成任务的个体。

Now it is quite clear to me that there are no solid spheres in the heavens, and those that have been devised by the authors to save the appearances, exist only in the imagination.

现在我很清楚,天空中没有实心的球体,而那些被作者们设计出来以拯救表象的球体,只存在于想象中。

The thing about imagination is that by the very act of putting it down, there must be some truth in one's own imagination.

关于想象力的事情是,通过把它写下来的行为,一个人的想象力中一定有一些真理。

How disturbing it is that our illusions are often our most important beliefs.

令人不安的是,我们的幻觉往往是我们最重要的信念。