You philosophers are lucky men. You write on paper and paper is patient. Unfortunate Empress that I am, I write on the susceptible skins of living beings.

  • -- Catherine The Great 凯瑟琳大帝

你们哲学家是幸运的人。你写在纸上,纸是耐心的。我是不幸的皇后,我写在易受伤害的人的皮肤上。

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It has always surprised me how little attention philosophers have paid to humor, since it is a more significant process of mind than reason. Reason can only sort out perceptions, but the humor process is involved in changing them.

哲学家们对幽默的关注之少总是让我感到惊讶,因为幽默是一种比理性更重要的思维过程。理性只能理清认知,但幽默的过程涉及到改变它们。

Philosophers, as things now stand, are all too fond of offering criticism from on high instead of studying and understanding things from within.

就目前的情况来看,哲学家们都太喜欢从高层提出批评,而不是从内部研究和理解事物。

Men become wise just as they become rich, more by what they save than by what they receive.

人之所以变得聪明,就像他们变得富有一样,更多的是因为他们储蓄了什么,而不是他们得到了什么。

Fail I alone, in words and deeds? Why, all men strive and who succeeds?

我一个人在言行上失败了吗?为什么,所有人都在奋斗,谁会成功?

One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.

一个人永远不会像他想象的那样幸运或不幸。