Scholarship was one thing, drudgery another. I very soon concluded that nothing would induce me to read, let alone make notes on, hundreds and hundreds of very, very, very boring books.

  • -- Simon Raven 西蒙·雷文

学问是一回事,苦差是另一回事。我很快得出结论,没有什么能吸引我去阅读,更不用说做笔记了,成百上千本非常、非常、非常无聊的书。

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We never stop investigating. We are never satisfied that we know enough to get by. Every question we answer leads on to another question. This has become the greatest survival trick of our species.

我们从未停止调查。我们从不满足于我们知道的足够多。我们回答的每一个问题都会引出另一个问题。这已经成为我们人类最伟大的生存技巧。

The work with which we embark on this first volume of a series of theological studies is a work with which the philosophical person does not begin, but rather concludes.

我们开始这一系列神学研究第一卷的工作,并不是哲学人开始的工作,而是结束的工作。

I got into Julliard on almost a full scholarship.

我拿到了茱莉亚学院的全额奖学金。