Idleness is to the human mind like rust to iron.

  • -- Ezra Cornell 埃兹拉·康奈尔

懒惰之于人的心灵,犹如生锈之于铁。

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If all consciousness is subject to essential laws in a manner similar to that in which spatial reality is subject to mathematical laws, then these essential laws will be of most fertile significance in investigating facts of the conscious life of human and brute animals.

如果所有的意识都服从基本定律,就像空间现实服从数学定律一样,那么这些基本定律将对研究人类和野兽的意识生活事实具有最丰富的意义。

Ideas came with explosive immediacy, like an instant birth. Human thought is like a monstrous pendulum; it keeps swinging from one extreme to the other.

思想的产生具有爆炸性的即时性,就像一个瞬间的诞生。人类的思想就像一个巨大的钟摆;它一直从一个极端摇摆到另一个极端。

Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.

心灵就像身体一样,常常会因为过度的舒适而陷入一种丘疹、病态的状态。

Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness.

修院-妇女的退休的地方,谁希望有闲暇沉思的罪恶的懒惰。

Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease.

烦恼源于懒惰,烦恼源于不必要的安逸。

Mind games to me are overrated.

心理游戏对我来说被高估了。