The march of the human mind is slow.

  • -- Edmund Burke 埃德蒙伯克

人类思想的发展是缓慢的。

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There was a time when the most powerful of human intellects were deluded by the gibberish of the astrologer and the alchemist... But time advances; facts accumulate; doubts arise... The highest intellects, like the tops of mountains, are the first to catch and to reflect the dawn.

曾经有一段时间,人类最强大的智慧被占星家和炼金术士的胡言乱语所迷惑……但是时间进步;事实的积累;怀疑出现……最高的智慧,如高山之巅,最先捕捉并反射黎明。

The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish.

当涉及到制造恐怖时,人类的思维受到了足够的启发;只有当它试图创造一个天堂时,它才显得土里土气。

Civilization, to be worthy of the name, must afford other methods of settling human differences than those of blood letting.

文明要名副其实,就必须提供解决人类分歧的其他方法,而不是放血的方法。

Mind is the great lever of all things; human thought is the process by which human ends are ultimately answered.

思想是一切事物的伟大杠杆;人的思想是最终回答人的目的的过程。