When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical distortion. The complex is made over into the simple, the hypothetical into the dogmatic, and the relative into an absolute.

  • -- Walter Lippmann 沃尔特·利普曼

当把遥远的、陌生的、复杂的东西传达给广大人民群众时,真理就会受到相当大的歪曲,而且往往是根本性的歪曲。复杂变成简单,假设变成教条,相对变成绝对。

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One of the things I have tried to do with this book and with all of them really is avoid that simple, easy, reductionist view of motivation and to show we do things for a complex net of reasons, a real braid of reasons.

我在这本书中尝试做的一件事就是避免那种简单的,简单的,简单化的动机观来展示我们做事情是为了一个复杂的原因网,一个真正的原因编织。

Everybody has a world, and that world is completely hidden until we begin to inquire. As soon as we do, that entire world opens to us and yields itself. And you see how full and complex it is.

每个人都有一个世界,在我们开始探究之前,这个世界是完全隐藏的。一旦我们这样做了,整个世界就会向我们敞开大门,让自己屈服。你可以看到它是多么的完整和复杂。

God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages.

感谢上帝赐予我们书籍;他们是远方和死者的声音,使我们成为过去时代精神生活的继承人。

Death is a distant rumor to the young.

对于年轻人来说,死亡是一个遥远的谣言。