What every genuine philosopher (every genuine man, in fact) craves most is praise although the philosophers generally call it recognition!

  • -- William James 威廉·詹姆斯

每一个真正的哲学家(事实上,每一个真正的人)最渴望的是赞美,尽管哲学家们通常称之为认可!

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You write because you have an idea in your mind that feels so genuine, so important, so true. And yet, by the time this idea passes through the different filters of your mind, and into your hand, and onto the page or computer screen - it becomes distorted, and it's been diminished.

你写作是因为你心中有一个想法,它让你感觉如此真实,如此重要,如此真实。然而,当这个想法通过你大脑中不同的过滤器,进入你的手中,进入你的页面或电脑屏幕时,它就被扭曲了,被削弱了。

As we saw in the Queen's Speech, anti-social behaviour - a phenomenon that I believe to be a genuine worry that is also being fed by a lot of scare stories - is the political theme of the moment.

正如我们在女王的演讲中所看到的,反社会行为是当前的政治主题。我认为,反社会行为是一种真实的担忧,许多耸人听闻的故事也助长了这种担忧。

Sometimes Aristotle analyses his terms, but very often he takes them for granted; and in the latter case, I think, he is sometimes deceived by them.

有时亚里士多德分析他的术语,但他常常认为它们是理所当然的;对于后者,我想,他有时会被他们欺骗。

To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea.

对一个哲学家来说,所有的新闻,就像人们所说的,都是流言蜚语,编辑和阅读这些新闻的人都是喝茶的老妇人。