Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them.

  • -- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg 利希滕贝格

偏见可以说是人类的机械本能:通过他们的偏见,他们不费任何力气就做了许多事情,他们会发现很难想清楚,以至于决定去做这些事情。

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I think I have an inner confidence that my tastes are pretty simple, that what I find funny finds a wide audience. I'm not particularly intellectual or clever or minority-focused in my creative instincts. And I'm certainly not aware of suppressing more sophisticated ambitions.

我想我有一种内在的自信,我的品味很简单,我觉得有趣的东西会吸引很多观众。在我的创作本能中,我并不特别聪明,也不特别关注少数群体。我当然没有意识到要压制更复杂的野心。

I don't want anything to do with anything mechanical between me and the paper, including a typewriter, and I don't even want a fountain pen between me and the paper.

我不想在我和纸之间有任何机械的东西,包括打字机,我甚至不想在我和纸之间有自来水笔。

From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.

从他们的经验或他人(历史)的记录经验中,人们只能学到他们的激情和形而上学的偏见允许他们学到的东西。

Prejudices save time.

偏见节省时间。

Trust your gut.

相信自己的直觉。