Culture exists and evolves to relegate to habit categories of interactions the constant conscious reference to which would make human interaction impossible.

  • -- David Mamet 大卫·马梅

文化的存在和进化使其沦为互动的习惯范畴,而不断有意识地提及这些习惯范畴将使人类的互动成为不可能。

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I feel we live in the kind of culture now where you have to be very smart to navigate the right way, and I just don't have those smarts. I think with age and time it will change, but I can't obsess about it.

我觉得我们生活在这样一种文化中,你必须非常聪明才能找到正确的方向,而我就是没有那种聪明。我认为随着年龄和时间的推移,它会发生变化,但我不能沉迷于它。

Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.

艺术始于反抗——在反抗被克服的那一刻。没有一件人类杰作是不经过巨大劳动就能创造出来的。

The intelligence of the lower forms of animal life, like a great deal of human intelligence, does not involve a self.

低级动物的智力,就像人类的许多智力一样,不涉及自我。

If my name had not been cleared, it would have been difficult, perhaps impossible, to continue as a journalist.

如果我的名字没有被洗清,就很难,也许不可能,继续做一名记者。

We are too young to realize that certain things are impossible, so we do them anyway.

我们太年轻了,没有意识到有些事情是不可能的,所以我们还是做了。

Modern European culture is nothing but a culture of natural sciences.

现代欧洲文化不过是一种自然科学文化。