All philosophies, if you ride them, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others.
— Samuel Butler  ·  Philosophy

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nonsense ['nɑnsɛns] 词频3 词根: sens
n. 胡说，废话;荒谬的念头;愚蠢的行为;胡闹; adj. 无意义的;荒谬的; int. 荒唐;
💡 non无+sense感觉，意义→无意义
"Reports that he has resigned are nonsense."
有关他已经辞职的报道是无稽之谈。
近义：hogwash, applesauce, muddleheadedness, absurdity, pedantry, poppycock 反义：judgement, judgment, reasonableness, sageness, sanity, sensibleness
ride [raɪd] 词频1
vt.& vi. 乘，骑，驾; n. （乘坐汽车等的）旅行;乘骑;（乘车或骑车的）短途旅程;供乘骑的游乐设施; vt. （骑马、自行车等）穿越;搭乘;飘浮;
💡 ri(日)+de(得):每日得意洋洋，因为 骑着自行车
"We went for a cycle ride on Sunday."
我们星期天骑自行车去兜风了。
近义：walk, drive, go, mount, weather, bear 反义：march, move, pass, roam, transit, hoof
others [['ʌðəz]]
pron. 其他人
greater
[计] 大的
近义：larger, utmost, bigger, uttermost, veriest 反义：inferior, lower, minor, smaller, undermost
philosophies
n. 哲学( philosophy的名词复数 ); 人生哲学; 人生观; 达观

📜 Samuel Butler 的更多名言

"He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most; God will take care that we do not enjoy it any more than is good for us."
"An honest god's the noblest work of man."
"All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income."
"The difference between God and the historians consists above all in the fact that God cannot alter the past."
"Neither have they hearts to stay. Nor wit enough to run away."
"An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books."
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🏷 更多「Philosophy」名言

"Who you are isn't tied solely to what you say, even though it may feel that way to you now."
— Diane Ackerman
"Philosophy consists very largely of one philosopher arguing that all others are jackasses. He usually proves it, and I should add that he also usually proves that he is one himself."
— H. L. Mencken
"This is patently absurd; but whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities."
— Bertrand Russell
"One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has not already been said by one philosopher or another."
— Rene Descartes
"There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it."
— Cicero
"The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it."
— Bertrand Russell
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