The universal principle of etymology in all languages: words are carried over from bodies and from the properties of bodies to express the things of the mind and spirit. The order of ideas must follow the order of things.

  • -- Giambattista Vico 维科

所有语言中词源学的普遍原则:词是从身体和身体的性质中继承下来的,用来表达思想和精神的东西。思想的秩序必须遵循事物的秩序。

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The only objects of practical reason are therefore those of good and evil. For by the former is meant an object necessarily desired according to a principle of reason; by the latter one necessarily shunned, also according to a principle of reason.

因此,现实理性的唯一对象是善与恶。因为前者是根据理性原则所必然要求的对象;后者必然被回避,这也是基于理性原则。

On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.

在风格上,随波逐流;在原则上,坚如磐石。