读书而不思考，等于吃饭而不消化。

To read without thinking is to eat without digesting.

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人们如果只是买很多衣服而不思考，他们会看来一团糟。

People look a mess because they're buying toomany clothes; they're not thinking.

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⊙、书读得多而不思考，你会觉得自己知道的很多。

Read much but not thinking, you feel like you know a lot.

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right, he's saying, wouldn't it be great just to have it there before us?

是的，意思是如果仅仅面对某事物而不去思考不是很好吗？

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And so he concluded, "I knew that I was a substance, the whole essence or nature of which is to think, and that for its existence, there is no need of any place nor does it depend on any material thing.

因此,他总结到,"我知道我是个实体,是思考主体的本质或本性,而这种思考主体的存在,无需任何空间,也不依赖于任何有形实体

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