The world does not speak. Only we do. The world can, once we have programmed ourselves with a language, cause us to hold beliefs. But it cannot propose a language for us to speak. Only other human beings can do that.

  • -- Richard Rorty 理查德·罗蒂

世界不说话。只有我们做的。一旦我们用一种语言给自己编程,这个世界就能让我们持有信念。但它不能为我们提供一种语言。只有其他人类才能做到这一点。

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If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.

大道废,有仁义;智慧出,有大伪;六亲不和,有孝慈;国家昏乱,有忠臣。

In this context, the church supports and favors every effort today to seek the full development of the personality of all human beings, and to promote their fundamental rights, their dignity and liberty.

在这方面,教会支持和赞成今天为寻求充分发展所有人的个性、促进他们的基本权利、尊严和自由所作的一切努力。

The bounties of space, of infinite outwardness, were three: empty heroics, low comedy, and pointless death.

空间的无限向外的界限有三个:空洞的英雄主义、低级的喜剧和无意义的死亡。

Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.

老年就像在暴风雨中飞行的飞机。一旦你上了船,你就什么也做不了了。

Someone once claimed I was not really a Yorkshireman!

有人曾经声称我不是真正的约克郡人!

Philosophy begins in wonder.

哲学始于奇迹。