A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
本身
Itself
I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.
我想，没有什么，甚至没有犯罪，比这种没完没了的工作更反对诗歌，更反对哲学，更反对生活本身了。
Politics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of society along the lines of greatest usefulness and convenience to itself.
我认为，政治不过是一门科学，它沿着对自身最有益和最方便的道路，有序地推动社会进步。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
To think is of itself to be useful; it is always and in all cases a striving toward God.
思考本身是有用的;在任何情况下，它总是向上帝奋斗。
Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.
成长本身就包含着幸福的萌芽。
This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read.
这份报告篇幅很长，它为自己辩护，避免了被人阅读的风险。
An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
知识分子是那种能观察自己思想的人。
He who has loved and who betrays love does harm not only to the image of the past, but to the past itself.
爱过又背叛爱的人，不但伤害过去的形象，而且伤害过去本身。
One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.
一个人的头脑总有办法在幕后发挥作用，他的意图突然变得清晰起来。