Knowledge is not eating, and we cannot expect to devour and possess what we mean. Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace.

  • -- George Santayana 乔治·桑塔亚纳

知识不是吃东西,我们不能指望吞掉并拥有我们的意思。知识是对缺失事物的认知;这是一种问候,而不是拥抱。

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When you have spent an important part of your life playing Let's Pretend, it's often easy to see symbolism where none exists.

当你花了生命中重要的一部分来玩“让我们来假装”时,往往很容易看到不存在的象征意义。

Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held.

官员的尊严往往与任职国家的重要性成反比。