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It is one of the consolations of philosophy that the benefit of showing how to dispense with a concept does not hinge on dispensing with it.

  • -- Willard Van Orman Quine 威拉德·冯·奥曼·蒯因

哲学的慰藉之一是，展示如何摒弃一个概念的好处并不取决于摒弃它。

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If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.

如果一个人每天有一半的时间是为了爱他们而在树林里散步，那么他就有可能被认为是一个游手好闲的人。但如果他把自己的时间花在投机上，在她之前砍掉那些树木，让地球光秃秃的，他就被认为是一个勤奋进取的公民。

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Our system is the height of absurdity, since we treat the culprit both as a child, so as to have the right to punish him, and as an adult, in order to deny him consolation.

我们的制度是荒谬至极的，因为我们既把罪犯当作孩子来对待，以便有权惩罚他，又把他当作成年人来拒绝给予他安慰。

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The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.

对欧洲哲学传统最可靠的概括是，它由一系列柏拉图的脚注组成。

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I picked up the writing on the very day he died. It was the only consolation I could find.

就在他去世的那天，我拾起了那封信。这是我能找到的唯一的安慰。

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