The simplest and most psychologically satisfying explanation of any observed phenomenon is that it happened that way because someone wanted it to happen that way.

  • -- Thomas Sowell 托马斯·索厄尔

对于任何观察到的现象,最简单、心理上最令人满意的解释是,它是以这种方式发生的,因为有人希望它以这种方式发生。

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Man's striving for order, of which art is but one manifestation, derives from a similar universal tendency throughout the organic world; it is also paralleled by, and perhaps derived from, the striving towards the state of simplest structure in physical systems.

人类对秩序的追求,艺术只是秩序的一种表现形式,这种追求源于整个有机世界的一种类似的普遍倾向;与之并行的,或许还源自于对物理系统中最简单结构状态的追求。

Sometimes it is the simplest, seemingly most inane, most practical stuff that matters the most to someone.

有时候,对一个人来说,最重要的是最简单、最空洞、最实用的东西。

I didn't decide to be a photographer; I just happened to fall into it.

我没有决定成为一名摄影师;我只是碰巧掉进去了。

The things we fear the most have already happened to us.

我们最害怕的事情已经发生在我们身上。