A mind enclosed in language is in prison.

  • -- Simone Weil 西蒙娜·韦伊

用语言禁锢的心灵是在监狱里。

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We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.

我们称失去父亲的人为孤儿;一个失去妻子的鳏夫。但是,这个人知道失去朋友的巨大痛苦,我们用什么名字称呼他呢?在这里,每一种语言都是沉默的,在无能为力中保持着平静。

I am both stunned and appalled that Pat Robertson would claim to know the mind of God concerning whether particular events... were the judgments of God.

我既震惊又震惊,帕特罗伯逊竟然声称知道上帝对某些特定事件的看法……都是神的审判。

I think space will be conquered through the mind rather than the clumsy medium of space travel.

我认为,太空将被征服的思想,而不是笨拙的介质的太空旅行。

Your language indicates and limits what you think.

你的语言表明并限制了你的想法。