Civilization is so hard on the body that some have called it a disease, despite the arts that keep puny bodies alive to a greater average age, and our greater protection from contagious and germ diseases.

  • -- G. Stanley Hall 斯坦利·霍尔

文明对身体的要求是如此之高,以至于有些人把它称为一种疾病,尽管艺术能让弱小的身体活到更大的平均年龄,也能更好地保护我们免受传染病和细菌性疾病的侵害。

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I had to accept that I was an alcoholic, that was the main thing. I think you've got to. But I try not say that I'm an alcoholic. I prefer to say that it's a disease I've got.

我不得不承认我是个酒鬼,这是主要原因。我认为你必须这么做。但我尽量不说我是个酒鬼。我宁愿说是我得了一种病。

And we owe science to the combined energies of individual men of genius, rather than to any tendency to progress inherent in civilization.

我们把科学归功于天才个人的综合能力,而不是文明固有的任何进步趋势。

Civilization had too many rules for me, so I did my best to rewrite them.

文明对我来说有太多的规则,所以我尽我最大的努力重写它们。

Love's a disease. But curable.

爱是一种疾病。但可治愈的。