To teach how to live without certainty, and yet without being paralyzed by hesitation, is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can still do for those who study it.

  • -- Bertrand Russell 罗素

教人们如何在没有确定性的情况下生活,同时又不被犹豫所麻痹,这也许是我们这个时代哲学仍然能为那些研究哲学的人所做的主要事情。

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To be perfectly original one should think much and read little, and this is impossible, for one must have read before one has learnt to think.

一个人要想完全具有原创性,就应该多思考,少阅读,而这是不可能的,因为一个人必须在学会思考之前阅读。

The truth is, going against the internal stream of ignorance is way more rebellious than trying to start some sort of cultural revolution.

事实是,与内部的无知潮流背道而驰,要比试图发动某种文化大革命叛逆得多。