A man of personality can formulate ideals, but only a man of character can achieve them.

  • -- Herbert Read 赫伯特·里德

有个性的人能形成理想,但只有有个性的人才能实现理想。

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Experience, already reduced to a group of impressions, is ringed round for each one of us by that thick wall of personality through which no real voice has ever pierced on its way to us, or from us to that which we can only conjecture to be without.

经验,已经被压缩成一组印象,围绕着我们每一个人的是一堵厚厚的人格之墙,没有任何真正的声音穿过这堵墙来到我们身边,或者从我们身边传到我们只能猜测没有的地方。

The idea of eternity lives in all of us. We thirst to live in a belief which raises our small personality to a higher coherence - a coherence which is human and yet superhuman, absolute and yet steadily growing and developing, ideal and yet real.

永生的观念存在于我们每个人心中。我们渴望生活在一种信念中,这种信念能把我们渺小的人格提升到更高的一致性——这种一致性既是人类的,又是超人的,是绝对的,但仍在稳步增长和发展,是理想的,也是现实的。

I can't say I had an ideal father, and I'm not a father myself.

我不能说我有一个理想的父亲,我自己也不是一个父亲。

That ideal reader suffering from an ideal insomnia.

那位理想的读者患了理想的失眠症。