Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.

  • -- Carl Gustav Jung 卡尔·古斯塔夫·荣格

错误毕竟是真理的基础,如果一个人不知道一件事是什么,那么如果他知道它不是什么,那么他至少增加了知识。

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The ideal of a pure phenomenology will be perfected only by answering this question; pure phenomenology is to be separated sharply from psychology at large and, specifically, from the descriptive psychology of the phenomena of consciousness.

纯现象学的理想只有通过回答这个问题才能得到完善;纯粹现象学要从心理学中分离出来,特别是从意识现象的描述心理学中分离出来。

This field is not necessarily glamorous, nor does it often produce immediate results, but it seeks to increase our basic understanding of living processes.

这个领域并不一定迷人,也不经常产生立竿见影的效果,但它试图增加我们对生活过程的基本理解。

To be good, we must do good; and by doing good we take a sure means of being good, as the use and exercise of the muscles increase their power.

要想行善,就必须行善;通过行善,我们获得了一种确定的行善方式,因为肌肉的使用和锻炼增加了它们的力量。

It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of truth.

让一个人知道他犯了错误是一回事,让他掌握真理是另一回事。

The best cure for hypochondria is to forget about your body and get interested in someone else's.

治疗忧郁症的最好方法就是忘掉自己的身体,对别人的身体感兴趣。

Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.

把自己变成一个诚实的人,这样你就可以确信世界上少了一个无赖。

He was as great as a man can be without morality.

他是一个没有道德的人所能做到的最伟大的人。

Honest error is to be pitied, not ridiculed.

诚实的错误应该被同情,而不是嘲笑。