Flippancy, the most hopeless form of intellectual vice.

  • -- George Gissing 乔治?吉辛

轻率,是智力上最无望的恶习。

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The intellectual force of the West is still dominant, but other cultures are getting stronger. I expect that we will develop a new way of thinking in architecture and urban planning, and that less will be based on our models.

西方的知识力量仍占主导地位,但其他文化正变得越来越强大。我希望我们能在建筑和城市规划方面发展一种新的思维方式,而不是以我们的模型为基础。

The intellectual evolution of the race consists in an increase in the number, delicacy, complexity, permanence and speed of formation of such associations.

种族的智力进化包括这种关联的数量、精细程度、复杂性、持久性和形成速度的增加。

It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.

恶的作用是把善保持在合理的范围之内。

Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual.

我们的信心来自瞬间;我们的恶习已成习惯。