When a language dies, a way of understanding the world dies with it, a way of looking at the world.

  • -- George Steiner 斯坦纳

当一种语言消亡时,一种理解世界的方式也随之消亡,一种看待世界的方式也随之消亡。

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Only when he has attained a final knowledge of all things will man have come to know himself. For things are only the boundaries of man.

只有当人对一切事物有了最后的认识,他才会认识自己。因为事物只是人的边界。

I don't want to be a tree; I want to be its meaning.

我不想成为一棵树;我想成为它的意义。