"I chose to try to make progress, and the concept of burning down a building or lighting a torch just seemed to me to be essentially crazy.

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Now Descartes, you remember, in his Meditations begins by asking a series of questions about how we can know anything, and one of the skeptical questions he asks is, "Well, might I not be crazy?"

大家应该记得，在《沉思录》的开头，笛卡尔问了一系列,关于我们如何知道一切的问题，其中的一个问题是，我可能疯了？

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Be crazy dumb saint of the mind.

做思想的哑巴圣徒。

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