This sense of power is the highest and best of pleasures when the belief on which it is founded is a true belief, and has been fairly earned by investigation.

  • -- William Kingdon Clifford 威廉·金顿·克利福德

这种权力感是最高的和最好的乐趣,当它所建立的信念是一个真正的信念,并已通过调查公平地赢得。

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I think we fool ourselves and really negate a great deal of history if we think that the oral history of poetry is shorter than the written history of poetry. It's not true. Poetry has a longer oral tradition than it does written.

我认为,如果我们认为诗歌的口述史比诗歌的书面史短,那么我们就是在愚弄自己,实际上是在否定大量的历史。这不是真的。诗歌的口头传统比书面传统更悠久。

True compassion is undirected & holds no conceptual focus. That kind of genuine, true compassion is only possible after realizing emptiness.

真正的同情是没有方向的,没有概念上的焦点。那种真正的同情只有在意识到空虚之后才有可能。