In wonder all philosophy began, in wonder it ends, and admiration fill up the interspace; but the first wonder is the offspring of ignorance, the last is the parent of adoration

  • -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge 柯勒律治

一切哲学都是在惊奇中开始的,在惊奇中结束,赞美充满了空间;但第一个奇迹是无知的产物,最后一个奇迹是崇拜之母

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Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people's, if we are always criticizing trivial actions - which often are not real defects at all, but we construe them wrongly through our ignorance of their motives.

如果我们总是批评琐碎的行为,我们的灵魂可能会失去平静,甚至扰乱他人的心灵——这些行为往往根本不是真正的缺陷,但我们却因为不了解他们的动机而错误地解释了他们。

As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children.

尽管我与圣人和英雄交谈得很多,但他们很少有我的爱和钦佩。我渴望乡村和家庭的景色,渴望鸟鸣和孩子们的闲聊。

It should now be clear why the method of Philosophy is so different from that of the natural sciences. Experiments are not made, because they would be utterly useless.

现在应该很清楚为什么哲学的方法与自然科学的方法如此不同了。实验是不做的,因为它们是完全无用的。

I always admired Wonder Woman and the Incredible Hulk - but I don't know if I'd be a very convincing hulk.

我一直很欣赏神奇女侠和绿巨人——但我不知道我是否会是一个非常有说服力的绿巨人。

The maturity of man—that means, to have reacquired the seriousness that one had as a child at play.

人的成熟,也就是说,重新获得了孩提时代玩耍时的严肃。

Idealism, alas, does not protect one from ignorance, dogmatism, and foolishness.

理想主义,唉,不能保护一个人免受无知,教条主义和愚蠢。