The simplest principles become difficult of practice, when habits, formed in error, have been fixed by time, and the simplest truths hard to receive when prejudice has warped the mind.

  • -- Frances Wright 弗朗西丝·莱特

当错误养成的习惯被时间固定下来时,最简单的原则在实践中就会变得困难;当偏见扭曲了人们的思想时,最简单的真理就会变得难以接受。

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He was thinking alone, and seriously racking his brain to find a direction for this single force four times multiplied, with which he did not doubt, as with the lever for which Archimedes sought, they should succeed in moving the world, when some one tapped gently at his door.

他独自思考着,认真地绞尽脑汁,想为这一力量找到一个方向。他毫不怀疑,这一力量是阿基米德所寻求的杠杆,它能推动世界。

Man's striving for order, of which art is but one manifestation, derives from a similar universal tendency throughout the organic world; it is also paralleled by, and perhaps derived from, the striving towards the state of simplest structure in physical systems.

人类对秩序的追求,艺术只是秩序的一种表现形式,这种追求源于整个有机世界的一种类似的普遍倾向;与之并行的,或许还源自于对物理系统中最简单结构状态的追求。

Coming to terms with the fact that my marriage was a failure was devastating and very difficult.

接受我婚姻失败的事实是毁灭性的,也是非常困难的。

One should examine oneself for a very long time before thinking of condemning others.

一个人在想要谴责别人之前,应该反省自己很长一段时间。

Start with the difficult and when it gets easy, everything else is easier.

从困难开始,当它变得容易时,其他一切都变得容易。

After thirty, a body has a mind of its own.

三十岁以后,人就有了自己的思想。

The simplest things are often the truest.

最简单的事情往往是最真实的。

Mind games to me are overrated.

心理游戏对我来说被高估了。