Parenthood is not an object of appetite or even desire. It is an object of will. There is no appetite for parenthood; there is only a purpose or intention of parenthood.

  • -- Robin George Collingwood 科林伍德

为人父母不是欲望甚至欲望的对象。它是意志的对象。没有为人父母的欲望;为人父母只有一个目的或意图。

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We are here on earth to do good for others. What the others are here for, I don't know.

我们在地球上是为他人做好事的。其他人来这里干什么,我不知道。

To be forced by desire into any unwarrantable belief is a calamity.

被欲望所迫而产生任何不可理喻的信仰是一种灾难。

If we have our own ‘why’ of life, we can bear almost any `how'.

如果我们有自己的“为什么”生活,我们几乎可以忍受任何“如何”。

To crave and to have are as like as a thing and its shadow.

渴求和拥有就像一个东西和它的影子。