In properly organized groups no faith is required; what is required is simply a little trust and even that only for a little while, for the sooner a man begins to verify all he hears the better it is for him.

  • -- George Ivanovich Gurdjieff 乔治·伊万诺维奇·葛吉夫

在组织得当的群体中,不需要信仰;所需要的只是一点信任,甚至只是短暂的信任,因为一个人越早开始核实他所听到的一切,对他就越有好处。

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One must be thrust out of a finished cycle in life, and that leap is the most difficult to make-to part with one's faith, one's love, when one would prefer to renew the faith and recreate the passion.

一个人必须从生命中一个已完成的循环中被推出去,而当一个人想要更新信仰和重新创造激情时,要想放弃自己的信仰和爱是最困难的。

These days there are not enough of such intermediary groups, between the state and the individual, with the result that political leaders are often unduly guided by opinion polls.

这些天来,在国家和个人之间没有足够的这种中间团体,其结果是,政治领导人往往受到民意调查的过分指导。

Much of what candidates have to do is raise money and appeal to constituencies or interest groups that can provide that money.

候选人要做的大部分事情就是筹集资金,并吸引能够提供资金的选民或利益集团。

No amount of manifest absurdity...could deter those who wanted to believe from believing.

没有多少明显的荒谬……可以阻止那些想要相信的人去相信。