It is true that men themselves made this world of nations... but this world without doubt has issued from a mind often diverse, at times quite contrary, and always superior to the particular ends that men had proposed to themselves.

  • -- Giambattista Vico 维科

的确,人类自己创造了这个由民族组成的世界……但是,毫无疑问,这个世界产生于一种思想,这种思想往往是多样化的,有时是完全相反的,而且总是超越人们向自己提出的特定目标。

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Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them and not contrary to them.

信心确实能告诉我们感官所不能告诉我们的,但却不能告诉我们与感官所看到的相反。它在他们之上,并不与他们相反。

Since I'm always working, my best holiday memories are definitely when I can just go home and spend time with my family.

因为我一直在工作,所以我最美好的假期记忆肯定是当我可以回家和家人在一起的时候。

French and German illustrate the misleading character of apparent grammatical simplicity just as well.

法语和德语也同样说明了明显的语法简单性所具有的误导性。

Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For, indeed, that's all who ever have.

永远不要相信少数有爱心的人不能改变世界。因为,确实,这是所有曾经拥有的。

There are places and moments in which one is so completely alone that one sees the world entire.

有些地方和时刻,一个人是如此的孤独,以至于他看到了整个世界。

I think the more stressful our times get, the more we look for fantasy escapes.

我认为我们的时代压力越大,我们就越想逃避幻想。

Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right.

每个国家都嘲笑其他国家,所有国家都是对的。