Men go abroad to admire the heights of mountains, the mighty billows of the sea, the broad tides of rivers, the compass of the ocean, and the circuits of the stars, and pass themselves by.

  • -- Augustine of Hippo 河马的奥古斯丁

人们到国外去欣赏高山、大海的汹涌澎湃、河流的汹涌澎湃、海洋的罗盘和星星的运行轨迹,然后就从那里经过了。

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It is doubtful whether mankind are most indebted to those who like Bacon and Butler dig the gold from the mine of literature, or to those who, like Paley, purify it, stamp it, fix its real value, and give it currency and utility.

值得怀疑的是,人类是否最感激那些像培根和巴特勒那样从文学宝库中挖掘黄金的人,还是最感激那些像佩利那样净化它、盖章、确定它的真正价值并赋予它货币和效用的人。

In the mass of mankind, I fear, there is too great a majority of fools and knaves; who, singly from their number, must to a certain degree be respected, though they are by no means respectable.

我担心,在人类的大众中,有太多的傻瓜和恶棍;从他们的人数来看,虽然他们一点也不值得尊敬,但在一定程度上必须受到尊敬。

In wonder all philosophy began, in wonder it ends, and admiration fill up the interspace; but the first wonder is the offspring of ignorance, the last is the parent of adoration

一切哲学都是在惊奇中开始的,在惊奇中结束,赞美充满了空间;但第一个奇迹是无知的产物,最后一个奇迹是崇拜之母

We have a lot of people revolutionizing the world because they've never had to present a working model.

我们有很多人在改变世界,因为他们从来没有提出过一个可行的模式。

I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind.

我认为你可以把艺术,无论优劣,留给人类的良知去决定。

A full bottle makes no sound; a half-bottle sloshes around.

满瓶不响;半瓶酒溅得到处都是。

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.

幸福的秘密在于欣赏而不渴求。

Fools admire, but men of sense approve.

愚者钦佩,智者赞许。