Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system. Our thoughts and beliefs pass, so long as nothing challenges them, just as bank-notes pass so long as nobody refuses them.

  • -- William James 威廉·詹姆斯

事实上,真理在很大程度上依赖于信用体系。只要没有任何挑战,我们的思想和信念就会过去;只要没有人拒绝,钞票就会过去。

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Finally, as the digestive canal is a complex system, a series of separate chemical laboratories, I cut the connections between them in order to investigate the course of phenomena in each particular laboratory; thus I resolved the digestive canal into several separate parts.

最后,由于消化道是一个复杂的系统,是一系列独立的化学实验室,我切断了它们之间的联系,以便研究各个实验室现象的过程;于是我把消化道分解成几个独立的部分。

Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place.

生命、自由和财产的存在并不是因为人们制定了法律。相反,正是生命、自由和财产在此之前就已经存在,这一事实促使人们首先制定法律。

Now men and women are separate and unequal. We should be hand in hand; in fact, we should have our arms around one another.

现在男人和女人是分开和不平等的。我们应该携手并进;事实上,我们应该互相拥抱。

My father is the jailhouse. My father is your system... I am only what you made me. I am only a reflection of you.

我父亲是监狱看守。我的父亲是你的体制…我只是你创造的我。我只是你的一个影子。