A dissenting minority feels free only when it can impose its will on the majority: what it abominates most is the dissent of the majority.

  • -- Eric Hoffer 埃里克·霍弗

持不同意见的少数人只有在能够将自己的意志强加于多数人时才会感到自由:它最痛恨的是多数人的不同意见。

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As far as I know, only a small minority of mathematicians, even of those with Platonist views, accept the idea that there may be mathematical facts which are true but unknowable.

据我所知,只有一小部分数学家,甚至包括那些柏拉图主义者,接受这样的观点,即可能存在真实但不可知的数学事实。

You can ask me pretty much anything. There'll be things I'll go, 'That feels a little too personal.' But most things I don't have a fear of being asked about.

你可以问我很多问题。有些事情我会去做,”这感觉有点太私人了。但大多数事情我并不害怕被问到。

Certainly in the modern age where everything is glossed over, when somebody speaks their mind, the majority of the public go, I'd love to have said that.

当然,在这个一切都被掩盖的现代,当有人说出自己的想法时,大多数公众都会说,我很乐意这样说。

It is commercial pop that the majority of people understand. A working man's daughter would not understand blues.

大多数人理解的是商业流行音乐。一个工人的女儿不会理解布鲁斯。

The minority is sometimes right; the majority always wrong.

少数人有时是对的;大多数人总是错的。

I don't think you know what this feels like.

我想你不知道这是什么感觉。