Distinction is the consequence, never the object of a great mind.

  • -- Washington Allston 华盛顿奥尔斯顿

区别是结果,而不是伟大思想的目的。

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Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage, not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny, but to rouse them from lethargy, and to aid them to judge for themselves.

伟大的思想使别人变得伟大。他们的优越性是要利用的,不是要把群众变成知识分子的附庸,不是要在他们之上建立一种精神上的专制,而是要把他们从昏睡中唤醒,帮助他们自己作出判断。

Yet God is so one that He admits of distinction, and so admits of distinction that He still remains unity.

然而神是如此的一位,他承认有分别,也承认有分别,所以他仍然保持统一。

Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.

伟大的人物有目标;其他人的愿望。