It has always surprised me how little attention philosophers have paid to humor, since it is a more significant process of mind than reason. Reason can only sort out perceptions, but the humor process is involved in changing them.

  • -- Edward de Bono 爱德华·德·波诺

哲学家们对幽默的关注之少总是让我感到惊讶,因为幽默是一种比理性更重要的思维过程。理性只能理清认知,但幽默的过程涉及到改变它们。

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Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.

对于今天那些盲目的批评家和哲学家来说,单个的科幻故事可能和以往一样微不足道,但是科幻小说的核心,它的本质已经成为拯救我们的关键,如果我们想被拯救的话。

He must pay attention to his own feelings and to the meaning of what he does, if he is to be for himself, and yet for others as well.

如果他既要为自己,又要为他人着想,他就必须注意自己的感受,注意自己所做事情的意义。

I was reared in an atmosphere where a great deal of attention was paid to women's hairdressing.

在我成长的环境中,女性的美容受到了极大的关注。

Dogs and philosophers do the greatest good and get the fewest rewards.

狗和哲学家做的好事最多,得到的回报最少。