A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.

  • -- Thomas Carlyle 托马斯·卡莱尔

一个人靠相信某件事来生活,而不是靠对许多事情争论不休。

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On some levels, you can also have this feeling that we are being duped, somehow. And that the world is at play for something you would understand more if it were pure ideology. It is a very strange time and also basic things are being taken away.

在某种程度上,你也会有这样的感觉,我们被骗了。如果纯粹是意识形态,你就会更了解这个世界。这是一个非常奇怪的时期,基本的东西都被拿走了。

A stair not worn hollow by footsteps is, regarded from its own point of view, only a boring something made of wood.

一个没有被人踩破的楼梯,从它自己的角度看,只是一个无聊的木头东西。

A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand.

一个人应该有足够的文化修养,能够以怀疑的眼光看待文化,而不是二手的。

There is something sublime about its aloofness from and its indifference to its external environment.

它对外界环境的冷漠和超然,是一种崇高的东西。

We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.

我们总是渴望被禁止的东西,渴望被拒绝的东西。

A man must earnestly want.

一个人必须热切地渴望。