The fact of storytelling hints at a fundamental human unease, hints at human imperfection. Where there is perfection there is no story to tell.

  • -- Ben Okri 本·奥克里

讲故事的事实暗示了人类最基本的不安,暗示了人类的不完美。哪里有完美,哪里就没有故事可讲。

相关名言

Fundamental ideas are not a consequence of experience, but a result of the particular constitution and activity of the mind, which is independent of all experience in its origin, though constantly combined with experience in its exercise.

基本思想不是经验的结果,而是头脑的特定结构和活动的结果,这种结构和活动独立于一切经验的起源,尽管在实践中不断地与经验相结合。

Of course, relative citation frequencies are no measure of relative importance. Who has not aspired to write a paper so fundamental that very soon it is known to everyone and cited by no one?

当然,相对引用频率并不能衡量相对重要性。谁没有想过要写一篇如此基础的论文,以至于很快大家都知道了,却没有人引用它呢?

Original sin is the only rational solution of the undeniable fact of the deep, universal and early manifested sinfulness of men in all ages, of every class, and in every part of the world.

原罪是对不可否认的事实的唯一理性的解决办法,这一不可否认的事实是,人类在各个时代、各个阶层和世界各地都存在着深刻、普遍和早期表现出来的罪恶。

Some artists imagine they've got a hold on this apparatus, which in fact has got a hold of them. As a result, they end up supporting a cultural prison that is out of their control.

一些艺术家想象他们已经控制住了这个装置,而事实上这个装置已经控制住了他们。结果,他们最终支持了一个他们无法控制的文化监狱。