There must be possible a fiction which, leaving sociology and case histories to the scientists, can arrive at the truth about the human condition, here and now, with all the bright magic of the fairy tale.

  • -- Ralph Ellison 埃利森

一定存在这样一种可能:把社会学和案例史留给科学家们,让他们用童话中所有的光明魔力,在此时此地,了解人类状况的真相。

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There are a few dogmas and double standards and really regrettable exports from philosophy that have confounded the thinking of scientists on the subject of morality.

有一些教条和双重标准,以及哲学中令人遗憾的输出,混淆了科学家对道德问题的思考。

One way we can enliven the imagination is to push it toward the illogical. We're not scientists. We don't always have to make the logical, reasonable leap.

我们激活想象力的一种方法是把它推向不合逻辑的方向。我们不是科学家。我们不必总是做出合乎逻辑的、合理的飞跃。

History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions; the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology.

严格地说,历史是对问题的研究;答案研究属于人类学和社会学。

People have to be reminded that unions played a very historic role in our economy.

必须提醒人们,工会在我们的经济中发挥了非常历史性的作用。

Even at its most perceptive, sociology deals in abstractions.

即使在最具洞察力的时候,社会学也处理抽象问题。

Get it out of your historic head.

把它从你的历史头脑中抹去。