My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is.

  • -- Augustine of Hippo 河马的奥古斯丁

我的心把它的思想从经验中抽离出来,把它自己从那一大堆互相矛盾的感官形象中抽离出来,以便找出那沐浴在其中的光明是什么……这样,只要匆匆一瞥,它就达到了存在的视觉。

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Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.

迈出第一步,你的大脑就会调动所有的力量来帮助你。但首要的是你要开始。一旦战斗受到惊吓,你内外的一切都会来帮助你。

That neither our thoughts, nor passions, nor ideas formed by the imagination, exist without the mind, is what every body will allow.

我们的思想、激情和由想象形成的思想,都不存在于头脑之外,这是每个人都允许的。

I bear no grudges. I have a mind that retains nothing.

我没有怨恨。我脑子里什么也记不住。

High thoughts must have high language.

崇高的思想必须有崇高的语言。