There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here; because life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense.

  • -- Thomas Hobbes 托马斯·霍布斯

我们住在这里的时候,没有永远的心灵安宁;因为生命本身就是运动,没有欲望,没有恐惧,就像没有感觉一样。

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The fact that one can lose one's sense of self in an ocean of tranquility does not mean that one's consciousness is immaterial or that it presided over the birth of the universe.

一个人可以在一片宁静的海洋中失去自我意识,这并不意味着他的意识是非物质的,也不意味着他的意识主导了宇宙的诞生。

Some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.

有些人似乎几乎是在创造自己,在各种不利条件下突然冒出来,在千难万险中以他们自己的孤独而不可抗拒的方式工作着。

If my body is enslaved, still my mind is free.

如果我的身体被奴役,我的思想仍然是自由的。