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No doubt Western civilization has in the past been full of wars and revolutions, and the national elements in our culture, even when they were ignored, always provided an unconscious driving force of passion and aggressive self-assertion.

  • -- Christopher Dawson 克里斯多夫·道森

毫无疑问，西方文明在过去充满了战争和革命，而我们文化中的民族元素，即使被忽视，也总是提供了一种无意识的动力，激情和侵略性的自我主张。

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A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by logic, but justifying themselves as paths when they lead somewhere, since they open up for man his inner distance.

文明是一种信仰、习俗和知识的遗产，在几个世纪的过程中慢慢积累起来，这些元素有时很难用逻辑来证明，但当它们指向某个地方时，就会证明自己是正确的路径，因为它们为人类打开了内心的距离。

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We are like ignorant shepherds living on a site where great civilizations once flourished. The shepherds play with the fragments that pop up to the surface, having no notion of the beautiful structures of which they were once a part.

我们就像无知的牧羊人，生活在曾经繁荣过伟大文明的地方。牧羊人玩弄着浮出水面的碎片，对它们曾经是其中一部分的美丽结构一无所知。

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Hope arouses, as nothing else can arouse, a passion for the possible.

没有什么比希望更能激起人们对可能的激情。

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I didn’t want anybody seeing my fire until I burned them with it.

我不想让任何人看到我的火，直到我用它烧了他们。

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In revolutions authority remains with the greatest scoundrels.

在革命中，权威仍然属于最伟大的恶棍。

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