I hope that posterity will judge me kindly, not only as to the things which I have explained, but also to those which I have intentionally omitted so as to leave to others the pleasure of discovery.

  • -- René Descartes 任_笛卡尔

我希望后代对我的评价是仁慈的,不仅对我所解释的事情,而且对那些我故意省略的事情,以便留给别人去发现的乐趣。

相关名言

If bloggers are to improve our public discourse - helping busy and usually uninformed people make sense of the world - it is necessary to use some sort of standard with which to judge their reliability. Perhaps the answer (strictly advisory) is a body of their peers. Perhaps not.

如果博客作者想要改善我们的公共话语——帮助忙碌且通常无知的人们理解这个世界——就有必要使用某种标准来判断他们的可靠性。或许答案(严格意义上的建议)在于他们的同行。也许不是。

In an approximate way, the logic of commons has been understood for a long time, perhaps since the discovery of agriculture or the invention of private property in real estate.

在某种程度上,公地逻辑已经被理解了很长一段时间,也许从农业的发现或房地产中私有财产的发明开始。

It is the privilege of posterity to set matters right between those antagonists who, by their rivalry for greatness, divided a whole age.

这是子孙后代的特权,使那些因追求伟大而分裂了整个时代的对手之间的事情变得正确。

I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

我从来不想看到任何人死去,但我愉快地读到一些讣告。

The writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.

智慧人的著作是我们后代唯一不能挥霍的财富。

The discovery of dance has changed my life in unimaginable ways.

舞蹈的发现以难以想象的方式改变了我的生活。

He who eats with most pleasure is he who least requires sauce.

吃得最开心的人是最不需要调味汁的人。

Judge not a man by his clothes, but by his wife's clothes.

判断一个人,不是看他的衣服,而是看他妻子的衣服。