有趣 / 有料 / 涨知识

王传福

SINCERITY. Use no hurtful deceit; think innocently and justly, and, if you speak, speak accordingly.

I'm drawn to a lovely quote by St. Augustine in "The City of God," where he says, "It's a sin to judge any man by his post." In modern English that would mean it's a sinto come to any view of who you should talk to, dependent on their business card. It's not the post that should count. According to St. Augustine, only God can really put everybody in their place; he's going to do that on the Day of Judgment, with angels and trumpets, and the skies will open. Insane idea, if you're a secularist person, like me. But something very valuable in that idea, nevertheless.

我很喜欢圣奥古斯丁在“上帝之城”里的一句话，他说“以社会地位评价人是一种罪”。用现在的口吻说，看一个人的名片来决定你是否要和他交谈是罪。对圣奥古斯丁来说，人的价值不在他的社会地位，只有神可以决定一个人的价值，他将在天使围绕、小号奏鸣，天空破开的世界末日给于最后审判，如果你是像我一样的世俗论者，这想法太疯狂了，但这想法有它的价值。

阿兰·德波顿

The health of our oceans is the health of our planet.

我们海洋的健康就是我们星球的健康。

吉姆·卡尔

儿童是一个细心的观察者，他特别容易被成人的行为所吸引，进而模仿他们。

蒙台梭利

物理学和数学之间的界限并不像我们想象的那么清晰。

The boundary between physics and mathematics is not as clear-cut as we might think.

罗杰·彭罗斯

睡眠比死快乐，至少无疑是容易的。

芥川龙之介

思就是在的思，……思是在的，正因思由在发生，属于在。同时，思是在的，正因思属于在，听从在。