The moralist is the person who tells people that they ought to be unselfish, when they still feel like egos, and his efforts are always and invariably futile.

  • -- Alan Wilson Watts 艾伦·威尔逊·沃茨

道德家是这样的人:当人们还觉得自己很自私,而他的努力总是毫无结果时,他却告诉人们应该无私。

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Morality and its victim, the mother - what a terrible picture! Is there indeed anything more terrible, more criminal, than our glorified sacred function of motherhood?

道德和它的受害者,母亲——多么可怕的画面!难道还有什么比我们作为母亲的神圣职责更可怕、更罪恶的吗?

Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.

艺术,就像道德一样,就是在某处画一条线。