A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance or insignificance.

  • -- T. S. Eliot T.S.艾略特

牙痛,或者一种强烈的激情,并不一定会因为我们对其原因、性质、重要性或无关紧要的认识而减弱。

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All observers not laboring under hallucinations of the senses are agreed, or can be made to agree, about facts of sensible experience, through evidence toward which the intellect is merely passive, and over which the individual will and character have no control.

所有不受感官幻觉影响的观察者,都同意或能够同意感性经验的事实,这是通过理智只是被动的、个人意志和性格无法控制的证据来实现的。

What do you want to get done? In what order of importance? Over what period of time? What is the time available? What is the best strategy for application of time to projects for the most effective results?

你想做什么?重要的顺序是什么?在什么时期?什么时间有空?将时间应用到项目中以获得最有效结果的最佳策略是什么?

When you really think about it, I'm not delusional enough to think that what I do is important to life as we know it on this planet. No. But neither is what you do.

当你认真思考这个问题的时候,我不会妄想我所做的事情对这个星球上的生命是重要的。不。但你所做的也不是。

Passion is the quickest to develop, and the quickest to fade. Intimacy develops more slowly, and commitment more gradually still.

激情是发展最快的,也是消退最快的。亲密关系发展得更慢,而承诺则更循序渐进。

Character is what you have left when you've lost everything you can lose.

品格是当你失去你所能失去的一切时所剩下的东西。

Man is only great when he acts from passion.

只有当一个人出于激情而行动时,他才是伟大的。