Ideals are an imaginative understanding of that which is desirable in that which is possible.

  • -- Walter Lippmann 沃尔特·利普曼

理想是对希望之物和可能之物的富有想象力的理解。

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Seek first to understand, then to be understood.Most people do not listen with the intent to understand: they listen with the intent to reply. They’re filtering everything through their own paradigms, reading their autobiography into other people’s lives.

先寻求理解,再寻求被理解。大多数人倾听的目的不是为了理解,而是为了回应。他们通过自己的范例来过滤一切,把自己的自传读给别人听。

Just about this time, when in imagination I was so great a warrior, I had good use in real life for more strength, as I was no longer taken to school by the nurse, but instead had myself to protect my brother, two years my junior.

就在这个时候,在想象中我是一个伟大的战士,在现实生活中,我很好地利用了更多的力量,因为我不再被护士带到学校,而是让我自己来保护我的弟弟,我的弟弟比我小两岁。

Imagination is the wide-open eye which leads us always to see truth more vividly.

想象是睁大的眼睛,它使我们总是能更生动地看到真理。

A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.

理解开始的第一个迹象是渴望死亡。