The true knowledge or science which exists nowhere but in the mind itself, has no other entity at all besides intelligibility; and therefore whatsoever is clearly intelligible, is absolutely true.

  • -- Ralph Cudworth 卡德沃斯

真正的知识或科学只存在于心灵本身,除了可解性之外,根本没有别的实体;因此任何清晰易懂的东西都是绝对正确的。

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We have a tendency to think everyone's idiotic and everyone's only doing something idiotic, and the world is controlled by a not-so-secret group of morons. There's great truth in that, I suppose, but then it's also not true.

我们有一种倾向,认为每个人都是白痴,每个人只是在做一些白痴的事情,而这个世界是由一群不那么神秘的白痴控制的。我想这是有道理的,但也不是真的。

A true measure of your worth includes all the benefits others have gained from your success.

衡量你价值的真正标准包括别人从你的成功中获得的所有好处。

To establish that a rule is likely to be true, one must try to prove it false.

要确定一条规则可能是正确的,就必须设法证明它是错误的。

Order is heaven's first law.

秩序是天理。