To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind.

  • -- Wallace Stevens 华莱士·史蒂文斯

把想象看成形而上学,就是把想象看成生活的一部分,把想象看成生活的一部分,就是认识到技巧的程度。我们活在思想里。

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Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.

根据我的形而上学,自由是一种智力主体的自我决定的力量。它意味着思考、选择和权力。

The standing ovation threw me... to be held in such regard in a town so full of talent is quite something.

全场起立的欢呼声使我……在这样一个人才济济的城市里受到这样的尊敬,真是了不起。

The regard one shows economy, is like that we show an old aunt who is to leave us something at last.

一个人对经济的重视,就像我们对一位老阿姨的重视一样,她最终会给我们留下一些东西。

Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.

形而上学是一片没有海岸和灯塔的黑暗海洋,散布着许多哲学的残骸。