We must admit with humility that, while number is purely a product of our minds, space has a reality outside our minds, so that we cannot completely prescribe its properties a priori.

  • -- Carl Friedrich Gauss 高斯

我们必须谦虚地承认,虽然数字纯粹是我们思想的产物,但空间在我们的思想之外有一个实在,因此我们不能完全预先规定它的性质。

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From this bestial view that the human mind consists of only sense certainty, pleasure and pain, Locke developed an equally bestial theory of the nation. Man originally existed in a State of Nature of complete liberty.

洛克从这种兽性的观点,即人类的心灵只由感觉确定性、快乐和痛苦组成,发展出一种同样兽性的国家理论。人类最初存在于完全自由的自然状态中。

I have dreamed in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they have gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind.

我一生都在做梦,这些梦一直伴随着我,改变了我的想法;他们来攻击我,攻击我,如同酒攻击水,改变了我心的颜色。

I've never had a humble opinion. If you've got an opinion, why be humble about it?

我从来没有谦虚过。如果你有意见,为什么要谦虚呢?

Power is dangerous unless you have humility.

权力是危险的,除非你有谦卑。