Right discipline consists, not in external compulsion, but in the habits of mind which lead spontaneously to desirable rather than undesirable activities.

  • -- Bertrand Russell 罗素

正确的纪律不在于外在的强迫,而在于能自发地导致可取而非不可取的行为的心理习惯。

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When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand.

当我们诚实地问自己生命中谁对我们最重要时,我们常常发现,是那些人,他们没有给出建议、解决方案或治愈方法,而是选择与我们分享痛苦,用温暖而温柔的手触摸我们的伤口。

The various forms of intellectual activity which together make up the culture of an age, move for the most part from different starting-points, and by unconnected roads.

构成一个时代文化的各种形式的智力活动,在很大程度上是由不同的起点和不相连的道路所构成的。

In art, scandal is a false narrative, a smoke screen that camouflages rather than reveals. When we don't know what we're seeing, we overreact.

在艺术中,丑闻是一种虚假的叙述,是一种伪装而非揭露的烟幕。当我们不知道自己在看什么时,我们会反应过度。

You can judge the quality of their faith from the way they behave. Discipline is an index to doctrine.

你可以从他们的行为来判断他们信仰的品质。纪律是教条的索引。

Now I also discipline myself to do things I love to do when I don't want to do them.

现在我也约束自己去做我喜欢做的事情,当我不想做的时候。

Humour is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.

幽默是迄今为止人类大脑最重要的活动。