He who truly believes that which prompts him to an action has looked upon the action to lust after it, he has committed it already in his heart.

  • -- William Kingdon Clifford 威廉·金顿·克利福德

真正相信促使他去做某件事的东西的人,已经看到了促使他去做某件事的欲望,他已经在心里做了这件事。

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The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

生命、健康和活力所依赖的主要条件是行动。只有通过行动,一个有机体才能发展它的能力,增加它的能量,并实现它的命运。

This sense of power is the highest and best of pleasures when the belief on which it is founded is a true belief, and has been fairly earned by investigation.

这种权力感是最高的和最好的乐趣,当它所建立的信念是一个真正的信念,并已通过调查公平地赢得。

Most intellectual people do not believe in God, but they fear him just the same.

大多数有智慧的人不相信上帝,但他们同样害怕他。

Consensus is what many people say in chorus but do not believe as individuals.

共识是许多人齐声说的,但作为个人却不相信。

Be a good animal, true to your animal instincts.

做一个好动物,忠于你的动物本能。

Action, so to speak, is the genius of nature.

行动,可以说是大自然的天才。