"A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it, an apostle is unlikely to look out."
文学的力量在于它能够揭示人性的复杂性,而不仅仅是描述事件。
The present state of the system of nature is evidently a consequence of what it was in the preceding moment, and if we conceive of an intelligence which at a given instant comprehends all the relations of the entities of this universe, it could state the respective positions, motions, and general effects of all these entities at any time in the past or future.
双重思想意味着在头脑中同时持有两种相互矛盾的信念,并接受它们两者。
National unity is the source of strength.
菩提原本就没有树,明亮的镜子也并不是台。本来就是虚无没有一物,哪里会染上什么尘埃?