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Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author.
制作一本书是一门手艺,就像制作一个时钟;成为一名作家需要的不仅仅是天生的才智。
— Jean de La Bruyere 布吕耶尔
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更多好句 ↗To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.
知道,就是知道自己一无所知。这就是真知识的意义。
Socrates
苏格拉底
Love, work, and knowledge are the wellsprings of our lives, they should also govern it.
爱、工作和知识是我们生活的源泉,它们也应该支配我们的生活。
Wilhelm Reich
威廉·赖希
Science is not about control. It is about cultivating a perpetual condition of wonder in the face of something that forever grows one step richer and subtler than our latest theory about it. It is about reverence, not mastery.
科学与控制无关。它是在面对比我们最新的理论更丰富、更微妙的东西时,培养一种永久的惊奇状态。这是尊重,而不是掌握。
Richard Powers
理查德·鲍尔斯
We read deeply for varied reasons, most of them familiar: that we cannot know enough people profoundly enough; that we need to know ourselves better; that we require knowledge, not just of self and others, but of the way things are.
我们深入阅读的原因多种多样,其中大多数都是我们所熟悉的:我们无法足够深刻地了解足够多的人;我们需要更好地了解自己;我们不仅需要了解自己和他人,还需要了解事物的本质。
Harold Bloom
哈罗德·布鲁姆
Questions structure and, so, to some extent predetermine answers.
问题的结构,因此,在某种程度上预先决定答案。
A. R. Ammons
安蒙斯
The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.
思想的空气是唯一值得呼吸的空气。
Edith Wharton
伊迪丝·沃顿