Unthinking faith is a curious offering to be made to the creator of the human mind.

  • -- John A. Hutchinson 约翰·A·哈钦森

不加思索的信心是一种奇妙的礼物,要献给人类心灵的创造者。

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A lively, disinterested, persistent liking for truth is extraordinarily rare. Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not to be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism or doubt.

对真理有一种活泼、无私、执着的爱好是非常罕见的。行动和信仰都是思想的奴隶,它们都是为了不受反思、批评或怀疑的困扰或不便。

Order is the sanity of the mind, the health of the body, the peace of the city, the security of the state. Like beams in a house or bones to a body, so is order to all things.

秩序是头脑的健全,身体的健康,城市的和平,国家的安全。秩序之于万物,犹如房屋之梁,房屋之骨。

One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn' t pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself.

我从惨痛的经历中学到的一件事是,灰心丧气是得不偿失的。保持忙碌和乐观的生活方式可以恢复你对自己的信心。

There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment; there is no disease like covetousness, and no virtue like mercy.

没有一种紧缩等于平衡的思想,也没有一种幸福等于满足;没有一种疾病比得上贪婪,也没有一种美德比得上仁慈。

Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.

每件事都是模糊的,直到你试图使它精确,你才会意识到。

There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking.

有很多人读书只是为了阻止自己思考。

We must learn our limits. We are all something, but none of us are everything.

我们必须了解自己的极限。我们都是有价值的人,但没有一个人是万能的。

I don't have too much faith in destiny, or an afterlife. This is it.

我对命运或来世没有太多的信心。这是它。