The history of philosophy is not, like the history of the sciences, to be considered as a mere chronological record of discoveries and errors. It is the history of the human spirit in its endeavor to understand itself and its relation to the universe.
哲学史不像科学史那样，仅仅被视为发现和错误的年代记录。它是人类精神在努力理解自身及其与宇宙关系的历史。
我不是一个容易被影响的人。
我们讲述的关于动物的故事更多地反映了我们自己，而不是它们。
所有行为最终都可简化为物理和化学过程。
The past is always tense, the future perfect.
I don’t believe in luck. I believe in hard work.
Life is about taking risks. If you don't take risks, you'll never know what you're capable of.
Is there any relief from some of thesepressures that I've been outlining? I think there is. I just want to turn to afew of them. Let's take meritocracy. This idea that everybody deserves to getwhere they get to, I think it's a crazy idea, completely crazy. I will support any politician of Left and Right, with any halfway-decent meritocratic idea; I am a meritocrat in that sense. But I think it's insane to believe that we will ever make a society that is genuinely meritocratic; it's an impossible dream.
History is written by those who refuse to bow to fate.
People who cannot say no, cannot say yes meaningfully either.
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