Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.

  • -- Thomas Hobbes 托马斯·霍布斯

理解只不过是由言语引起的概念。

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Each age tries to form its own conception of the past. Each age writes the history of the past anew with reference to the conditions uppermost in its own time.

每个时代都试图形成自己对过去的概念。每一个时代都参照其所处时代的最高条件,重新书写过去的历史。

It is only our conception of time that makes us call the Last Judgement by this name. It is, in fact, a kind of martial law.

正是我们对时间的概念使我们用这个名字来称呼最后的审判。事实上,这是一种戒严法。

Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.

我们人类需要,也应该有一个头脑清醒、对世界如何运转有基本了解的公民。

Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?

难道还有比我们对视片刻更伟大的奇迹发生吗?

Speech is silver, but silence is golden.

雄辩是银,沉默是金。

A great speech is literature.

伟大的演讲是文学。