All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.

  • -- Epictetus 埃皮克特斯

所有的哲学都在于两个词,维持和放弃。

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Like the winds that we come we know not whence and blow whither soever they list, the forces of society are derived from an obscure and distant origin. They arise before the date of philosophy, from the instincts, not the speculations of men.

社会的力量,就象我们不知道从哪里来的风,也不知道把它吹到什么地方去,不管它吹向什么地方一样,都是从一个遥远而不为人知的地方来的。它们产生于哲学出现之前,源于本能,而不是人类的思辨。

Philosophy, from the earliest times, has made greater claims, and achieved fewer results, than any other branch of learning.

哲学,从很早的时候起,就比其他任何一门学问都要求更多的东西,取得更少的成果。