All the choir of heaven and furniture of earth - in a word, all those bodies which compose the frame of the world - have not any subsistence without a mind.

  • -- George Berkeley 乔治伯克利

所有天上的唱诗班和地上的家具——总而言之,所有构成世界框架的身体——没有思想就没有生存。

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There's no reason to keep a piece of furniture in your house that is so sacred and rare that you can't put your feet up on it and a dog can't jump up on it. Likewise, a book that sits on a shelf like a piece of porcelain, only to be admired, never to be read again, is a dead book.

没有理由在家里放一件如此神圣稀有的家具,以至于你不能把脚放在上面,狗也不能跳上去。同样,如果一本书像一件瓷器一样放在架子上,只是为了欣赏,而不再阅读,那它就是一本死书。

The quality of the Lord's church on earth, cannot be seen by any man, so long as he lives in the world, still less how the church in process of time has turned aside from good to evil.

天主在世上的教会的品质,任何人只要活在世上,都是看不见的,更不用说教会如何在时间的进程中,由善转向恶了。

I don't particularly like showing furniture on pedestals, but for whatever reasons you always have to in museums.

我不是特别喜欢在基座上展示家具,但不管出于什么原因,你总是必须在博物馆里展示。

Nothing is farther than earth from heaven; nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.

没有什么比地球离天堂更远;没有什么比天离地更近的了。