Reason enables us to get around in the world of ideas, but cannot prescribe our thoughts.

  • -- Mason Cooley 梅森·库利

理智使我们能够在思想的世界里漫游,却不能规定我们的思想。

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The ideas that come out of most brainstorming sessions are usually superficial, trivial, and not very original. They are rarely useful. The process, however, seems to make uncreative people feel that they are making innovative contributions.

大多数头脑风暴会议产生的想法通常是肤浅的、琐碎的,而且不是很有创意。它们很少有用。然而,这个过程似乎让缺乏创造力的人觉得他们在做出创新的贡献。

Could I say that the reason that I am here today, you know, from the mouth of the State Department itself, is: I should not be allowed to travel because I have struggled for years for the independence of the colonial peoples of Africa.

我能否说,我今天站在这里的原因,你知道,从国务院自己的口中,是:我不应该被允许旅行,因为我为非洲殖民地人民的独立奋斗了多年。

It was pretty much the way that it was when I first read it, although one exception would be that some ideas that I had were also incorporated into the script.

这和我第一次读的时候差不多,不过有一个例外,我的一些想法也融入了剧本。

If all human lives depended upon their usefulness - as might be judged by certain standards - there would be a sudden and terrific mortality in the world.

如果所有人的生命都依赖于它们的用处- -这可以用某些标准来判断- -世界上就会突然出现可怕的死亡。

Ilike ideas writers have that I might not have written. Writers are there for a reason... to write for me.

我喜欢那些我可能没有写过的作家的想法。作家的存在是有原因的……给我写信。

The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.

对世界的知识只能在世界上获得,而不能藏在柜子里。

The free way of life proposes ends, but it does not prescribe means.

自由的生活方式提出目的,却没有规定方法。