We are so placid that the smallest tremor of objection is taken as a full-scale revolution.

  • -- Unknown 佚名

我们是如此平静,以至于最小的反对之声都被视为一场全面的革命。

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Some people confuse acceptance with apathy, but there's all the difference in the world. Apathy fails to distinguish between what can and what cannot be helped; acceptance makes that distinction. Apathy paralyzes the will-to-action; acceptance frees it by relieving it of impossible burdens.

有些人把接受和冷漠混淆了,但世界上有很大的不同。冷漠无法区分什么能做,什么不能做;接受决定了这种区别。冷漠麻痹了行动的意愿;接受可以让你从不可能的负担中解脱出来。

Suppose we were able to share meanings freely without a compulsive urge to impose our view or conform to those of others and without distortion and self-deception. Would this not constitute a real revolution in culture.

假设我们能够自由地分享意义,而不是强迫自己强加自己的观点或遵从他人的观点,也没有扭曲和自欺欺人。这难道不会构成一场真正的文化革命吗?

The job of the writer is to make revolution irresistible.

作者的工作是使革命不可抗拒。

If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime.

如果适度是一种错误,那么漠不关心就是一种犯罪。