Almost all of us long for peace and freedom; but very few of us have much enthusiasm for the thoughts, feelings, and actions that make for peace and freedom.

  • -- Aldous Huxley 奥尔德斯·赫胥黎

几乎我们所有人都渴望和平与自由;但是,我们当中很少有人对那些有助于和平与自由的思想、感情和行动充满热情。

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Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.

许多政治家习惯于把它作为一个不言自明的命题,即在人们能够充分利用他们的自由之前,没有人应该是自由的。这句格言就像古老故事里的傻瓜,他决定在学会游泳之前不下水。

The fundamental sense of freedom is freedom from chains, from imprisonment, from enslavement by others. The rest is extension of this sense, or else metaphor.

自由的基本意义是摆脱枷锁,摆脱监禁,摆脱他人的奴役。剩下的就是这个意义的延伸,或者隐喻。

I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.

我经常惊讶于小学生比大学生更有能力和对科学的热情。

Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.

热情是努力之母,没有热情,就不会有任何伟大的成就。