It is doubtless one of Aristotle's great services that he conceived so clearly the truth that literature is a thing that grows and has a history.

  • -- George Gilbert Aime Murray 乔治·吉尔伯特·艾梅·默里

毫无疑问,亚里士多德的伟大贡献之一,就是他如此清晰地构想出这样一个真理,即文学是一种不断发展并具有历史的东西。

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A philosopher is, no doubt, entitled to examine even those distinctions that are to be found in the structure of all languages... in that case, such a distinction may be imputed to a vulgar error, which ought to be corrected in philosophy.

毫无疑问,哲学家甚至有权研究所有语言结构中的那些区别……在这种情况下,这种区别可以归结为一种庸俗的错误,这种错误应当在哲学上加以纠正。

Great literature must spring from an upheaval in the author's soul. If that upheaval is not present then it must come from the works of any other author which happens to be handy and easily adapted.

伟大的文学必须产生于作者灵魂的剧变。如果这种剧变不存在,那么它一定来自任何其他作者的作品,而这些作品恰好是方便和容易改编的。

There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.

在文学上还有一个伟大的发现,那就是按文学工作者不写作的数量支付报酬。

I'm not a minister, I'm not a philosopher, I'm not a politician, I'm in another category.

我不是部长,我不是哲学家,我不是政治家,我属于另一类人。