There is no sinfulness in the will and affections without some error in the understanding. All lusts which a natural man lives in, are lusts of ignorance.

  • -- George Gillespie 乔治·吉莱斯皮

没有错误的理解,就没有意志和情感的罪恶。一个自然人的一切欲望都是无知的欲望。

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Space is as infinite as we can imagine, and expanding this perspective is what adjusts humankinds focus on conquering our true enemies, the formidable foes: ignorance and limitation.

我们所能想象的空间是无限的,而扩展这一视角正是调整人类专注于征服我们真正的敌人,强大的敌人:无知和局限。

Of all the wastes of human ignorance perhaps the most extravagant and costly to human growth has been the waste of the distinctive powers of womanhood after the child-bearing age.

在人类无知的所有浪费中,也许对人类成长最奢侈和最昂贵的是对育龄以后妇女独特能力的浪费。

The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger; the first is a perpetual call upon them to propagate their kind, the latter to preserve themselves.

所有生物中最强烈的欲望是欲望和饥饿;第一种是不断地呼唤他们繁衍自己的同类,而后者则是保护自己。

Neither do thou lust after that tawny weed tobacco.

你也不贪恋那黄褐色的烟草。