If we look into ourselves we discover propensities which declare that our intellects have arisen from a lower form; could our minds be made visible we should find them tailed.

  • -- William Winwood Reade 威廉·温伍德·里德

如果我们审视自己,我们就会发现一些倾向,这些倾向表明我们的智力来自于一种较低的形态;如果我们的思想被看得见,我们就会发现它们被尾随着。

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All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.

所有人也将铭记这一神圣的原则,即虽然多数人的意愿在所有情况下都占上风,但这种合法的意愿必须是合理的;少数人拥有平等的权利,而平等的法律必须保护这些权利,侵犯这些权利就是压迫。

The mind is like a sheet of white paper in this, that the impressions it receives the oftenest, and retains the longest, are black ones.

人的心灵就像一张白纸,它所得到的印象最频繁,也保存得最久的,都是黑色的。

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

拒绝参与政治的后果之一就是你最终被你的下属所统治。

How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.

真诚怎么会是友谊的条件呢?不惜一切代价追求真理是一种不惜一切代价的激情。

The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers.

哲学家从来没有杀过牧师,而牧师却杀过许多哲学家。

You need contradictions to make an ideal.

你需要矛盾来创造理想。