Between our birth and death we may touch understanding, As a moth brushes a window with its wing.

  • -- Christopher Fry 克里斯托弗·弗莱

在我们生与死之间,我们可以接触到理智,就像飞蛾扑扇窗户一样。

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Science is the tool of the Western mind and with it more doors can be opened than with bare hands. It is part and parcel of our knowledge and obscures our insight only when it holds that the understanding given by it is the only kind there is.

科学是西方思想的工具,用它打开的门比徒手打开的要多。它是我们知识的重要组成部分,只有当我们的洞察力认为它所给予的理解是唯一存在的时候,它才会蒙蔽我们的洞察力。

And although our bodies are bounded with skin, and we can differentiate between outside and inside, they cannot exist except in a certain kind of natural environment.

虽然我们的身体和皮肤是有界限的,我们可以区分外部和内部,但它们只能存在于特定的自然环境中。

When a language creates as it does a community within the present, it does so only by courtesy of a community between the present and the past.

当一种语言在当下创造出一个共同体时,它只能通过一个介于现在和过去之间的共同体来实现。

None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.

凡是一向自由的人,谁也不能理解,对于那些没有自由的人来说,自由的希望具有多么可怕的迷人的力量。