He did not arrive at this conclusion by the decent process of quiet, logical deduction, nor yet by the blinding flash of glorious intuition, but by the shoddy, untidy process halfway between the two by which one usually gets to know things.

  • -- Margery Allingham 阿林厄姆

他得出这个结论,既不是靠平静的、合乎逻辑的推理,也不是靠闪光的、令人眼花缭乱的直觉,而是靠一种粗陋的、杂乱无章的、介于两者之间的过程,人们通常是通过这种过程来认识事物的。

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Knowledge has three degrees -- opinion, science, illumination. The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition.

知识有三个学位——意见、科学、启发。第一种方法或工具是感觉;第二,辩证法;第三,直觉。

Reason clears and plants the wilderness of the imagination to harvest the wheat of art.

理性清除并播下想象的荒野,收获艺术的麦粒。

Faith is not a sense, nor sight, nor reason, but taking God at His work.

信心不是一种感觉,不是一种视觉,也不是一种理性,而是上帝的工作。

It's hard to follow a person's logic if you don't know how they feel.

如果你不知道一个人的感受,就很难理解他的逻辑。

I would rather trust a woman's instinct than a man's reason.

我宁愿相信女人的直觉,也不相信男人的理智。

I think Veblen had an interest in logic.

我认为维布伦对逻辑很感兴趣。