The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency - the belief that the here and now is all there is.

  • -- Allan Bloom 布鲁姆

没能读到好书,既削弱了我们的视野,也强化了我们最致命的倾向——即相信此时此地就是一切。

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A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world.

对于一个不快乐但身体健康的成年人来说,一次五英里的剧烈散步比世界上所有的医学和心理学都更有益。

The worst book imaginable has a redeeming quality if it gets a young person to read.

如果能让年轻人读到你能想到的最糟糕的书,那么它也有可取之处。

Books have to be read; it is the only way of discovering what they contain.

必须读书;这是发现它们所包含内容的唯一方法。

There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.

好的照片没有规则,只有好的照片。

Libraries can in general be too narrow or too wide for the soul.

一般来说,对于灵魂来说,图书馆可能太窄,也可能太宽。

We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.

我们必须通过读得深而不是读得广来形成我们的思想。