Every daring attempt to make a great change in existing conditions, every lofty vision of new possibilities for the human race, has been labeled Utopian.

  • -- Emma Goldman 埃玛·戈尔德曼

每一项对现有条件作出重大改变的大胆尝试,每一项对人类新的可能性的崇高设想,都被贴上乌托邦的标签。

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It is impossible for us to understand the Church if we regard her as subject to the limitations of human culture. For she is essentially a supernatural organism which transcends human cultures and transforms them to her own ends.

如果我们认为她受人类文化的限制,我们就不可能理解教会。因为她本质上是一个超自然的有机体,它超越了人类文化,并将其转化为自己的目的。

Europe has what we do not have yet, a sense of the mysterious and inexorable limits of life, a sense, in a word, of tragedy. And we have what they sorely need: a sense of life's possibilities.

欧洲拥有我们尚未拥有的东西,一种神秘而不可抗拒的生命极限的感觉,一句话,一种悲剧的感觉。我们拥有他们迫切需要的东西:对生活的可能性的感知。

Travellers, like poets, are mostly an angry race: by falling into a daily fit of passion, I proved to the governor and his son, who were profuse in their attentions, that I was in earnest.

旅人就像诗人一样,多半是一种愤怒的民族。我每天都要大发雷霆,向总督和他的儿子证明我是认真的,他们对我殷勤备至。

A lot of people run a race to see who is fastest. I run to see who has the most guts, who can punish himself into exhausting pace, and then at the end, punish himself even more.

很多人跑步是为了看谁跑得最快。我跑去看谁的胆子最大,谁能把惩罚自己变成累人的步伐,然后在最后,惩罚自己更多。

The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced.

进步的残酷被称为革命。当它们结束时,我们意识到:人类受到了粗暴的对待,但它已经进步了。

All motion is cyclic. It circulates to the limits of its possibilities and then returns to its starting point.

所有的运动都是循环的。它循环到可能性的极限,然后回到起点。