The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual.

  • -- Walt Whitman 沃尔特惠特曼

整个宇宙理论都准确无误地指向一个人。

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Everyone is an ocean inside. Every individual walking the street. Everyone is a universe of thoughts, and insights, and feelings. But every person is crippled in his or her own way by our inability to truly present ourselves to the world.

每个人的内心都是一片海洋。每一个走在街上的人。每个人都是一个由思想、见解和感受组成的宇宙。但每个人都有自己的缺陷,因为我们无法真正地向世界展现自己。

Most people believe that the Creator of the universe wrote (or dictated) one of their books. Unfortunately, there are many books that pretend to divine authorship, and each makes incompatible claims about how we all must live.

大多数人相信宇宙的创造者写(或口述)了他们的一本书。不幸的是,有很多书假装是神的作者,每一本都对我们必须如何生活提出了不相容的主张。

The theory that can absorb the greatest number of facts, and persist in doing so, generation after generation, through all changes of opinion and detail, is the one that must rule all observation.

能够吸收最多的事实,并坚持这样做,一代又一代,通过所有的意见和细节的变化,是一个理论,必须统治所有的观察。

Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.

人类进步了,当它进步的时候,不是因为它清醒、负责和谨慎,而是因为它顽皮、叛逆和不成熟。

Postmodernism is an academic theory, originating in academia with an academic elite, not in the world of women and men, where feminist theory is rooted.

后现代主义是一种学术理论,发源于学术精英的学术界,而不是植根于女权主义理论的男女世界。

Where much is expected from an individual, he may rise to the level of events and make the dream come true.

当人们对一个人有很高的期望时,他可能会提升到事件的水平,使梦想成真。

Human kindness is like a defective tap, the first gush may be impressive but the stream soon dries up.

人类的善良就像一个有缺陷的水龙头,第一次喷出的水可能令人印象深刻,但很快就干涸了。

People see themselves as the center of the universe and judge everything as it relates to them.

人们把自己视为宇宙的中心,并根据与自己有关的一切来判断事物。

What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.

我们预料不到的事很少发生,但我们预料不到的事往往发生。

A small town is a place where there's no place to go where you shouldn't.

小镇是一个没有地方可以去的地方,你不应该去的地方。