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I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind.

  • -- William Butler Yeats 叶芝

我认为你可以把艺术，无论优劣，留给人类的良知去决定。

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Every human has four endowments- self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change.

每个人都有四种天赋——自我意识、良知、独立意志和创造性想象力。这些给了我们终极的人类自由……选择、回应和改变的能力。

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There are two distinct classes of what are called thoughts: those that we produce in ourselves by reflection and the act of thinking and those that bolt into the mind of their own accord.

所谓思想，有两种截然不同的类型:一类是我们通过反思和思考的行为而产生于自身的思想，另一类则是我们自己的思维。

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However, we all share the firm belief in the triumph of humanist and progressive values that mankind has achieved during its long history of struggle and creativeness.

然而，我们大家都坚定地相信，人类在其漫长的斗争和创造性历史中取得了人道主义和进步价值的胜利。

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The object of preaching is to constantly remind mankind of what they keep forgetting; not to supply the intellect, but to fortify the feebleness of human resolutions.

传道的目的，是要不断地提醒世人，他们常常忘记的事;不是为了提供智力，而是为了加强人类意志的软弱。

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The conscience of an artist worthy of the name is like an incurable disease which causes him endless torment but occasionally fills him with silent joy.

一个名副其实的艺术家的良心就像一种不治之症，给他带来无尽的折磨，但偶尔也会让他充满无言的喜悦。

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Humility is not thinking less of yourself, but thinking of yourself less.

谦卑不是少想你自己，而是少想你自己。

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