For after all, philosophy—that is, the best wisdom that has ever in any way been revealed to our man-of-war world—is but a slough and a mire, with a few tufts of good footing here and there.
—Herman Melville, White-Jacket
毕竟,哲学,这是最好的智慧,曾经以任何方式被揭示给我们的战争世界,只是一个泥沼和泥潭,在这里和那里有几簇很好的立足点。
-赫尔曼·梅尔维尔,White Jacket(谷歌翻译仅供参考)