Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.

  • -- William Ellery Channing 钱宁

困难是用来振奋人心的,而不是用来打击士气的。人类的精神是通过冲突而变得强大。

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Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage, not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny, but to rouse them from lethargy, and to aid them to judge for themselves.

伟大的思想使别人变得伟大。他们的优越性是要利用的,不是要把群众变成知识分子的附庸,不是要在他们之上建立一种精神上的专制,而是要把他们从昏睡中唤醒,帮助他们自己作出判断。

The service of philosophy, of speculative culture, towards the human spirit, is to rouse, to startle it to a life of constant and eager observation.

哲学,思辨文化,对人类精神的服务,就是唤醒它,使它受到惊吓,使它生活在不断的、热切的观察之中。

The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

你遇到的困难会随着你的进步而自行解决。继续前进,黎明就会来临,你的道路会越来越清晰。

To substitute Scripture for the self-revealing Spirit is to put the dead letter in the place of the living Word.

用圣经代替自显的灵,就是用死书代替活字。

We hope the world will act in the spirit of enlightened self-interest.

我们希望世界将本着开明的利己主义精神行事。

Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.

困难是历史永远不会接受的借口。

Let him who will not take advice have conflict.

不听劝戒的,两相纷争。

I became conflicted in my late teens.

我在十几岁的时候变得矛盾。