The un-conscious distortion of the facts is almost harmless compared to the unconscious neglect of an animal's mental life until it verges on the unusual and marvelous.

  • -- Edward Thorndike 桑代克

与无意识地忽视动物的精神生活相比,无意识地歪曲事实几乎是无害的,直到它接近不寻常和不可思议的地步。

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It is a distortion, with something profoundly disloyal about it, to picture the human being as a teetering, fallible contraption, always needing watching and patching, always on the verge of flapping to pieces.

把人类想象成一个摇摇欲坠、容易犯错的精巧装置,总是需要观察和修补,总是处在被撕成碎片的边缘,这是一种扭曲,带有某种极不忠诚的东西。

Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever or whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing.

像个孩子一样,面对事实坐下来,准备好放弃一切先入之见,虚心追随大自然的深渊,否则你将一无所获。

When my cats aren't happy, I'm not happy. Not because I care about their mood but because I know they're just sitting there thinking up ways to get even.

当我的猫不开心时,我也不开心。不是因为我在乎他们的情绪,而是因为我知道他们只是坐在那里想办法报复。

The conscious mind determines the actions, the unconscious mind determines the reactions; and the reactions are just as important as the actions.

意识决定行为,无意识决定反应;反应和行动一样重要。

All forms of self-defeating behavior are unseen and unconscious, which is why their existence is denied.

所有形式的弄巧成拙的行为都是看不见的和无意识的,这就是为什么他们的存在被否认。

Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level.

相信你的直觉。它们通常是建立在低于意识水平的事实基础上的。

I just love dogs, and there really is no better companion than an animal.

我就是喜欢狗,真的没有比动物更好的伴侣了。