Realism is punishing. Probabilistic skepticism is worse.

  • -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb 纳西姆·尼古拉斯·塔勒布

现实主义是惩罚。概率怀疑主义更糟。

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It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to... The feeling for the things themselves, for reality, is more important than the feeling for pictures.

人们应该倾听的不是画家的语言,而是自然的语言。对事物本身的感觉,对现实的感觉,比对图片的感觉更重要。

As writers and readers, as sinners and citizens, our realism and our aesthetic sense make us wary of crediting the positive note.

作为作家和读者,作为罪人和公民,我们的现实主义和审美意识使我们不敢相信积极的音符。