It is a distortion, with something profoundly disloyal about it, to picture the human being as a teetering, fallible contraption, always needing watching and patching, always on the verge of flapping to pieces.

  • -- Lewis Thomas 路易斯·汤马斯

把人类想象成一个摇摇欲坠、容易犯错的精巧装置,总是需要观察和修补,总是处在被撕成碎片的边缘,这是一种扭曲,带有某种极不忠诚的东西。

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To probe for unconscious determinants of behavior and then define a man in their terms exclusively, ignoring his overt behavior altogether, is a greater distortion than ignoring the unconscious completely.

探究行为的无意识决定因素,然后用他们的术语来定义一个人,完全忽略他的公开行为,这比完全忽略无意识更扭曲。

Wrestling needs to be about the art form again. It needs to be about painting a picture and having a really good match.

摔跤需要重新成为一种艺术形式。它需要是关于画一幅画,有一个很好的匹配。

That which, perhaps, hears more nonsense than anything in the world, is a picture in a museum.

在博物馆里的一幅画,也许比世界上任何东西听到的废话都多。