Creatures whose mainspring is curiosity enjoy the accumulating of facts far more than the pausing at times to reflect on those facts.

  • -- Clarence Day 克劳伦斯·戴伊

以好奇心为主要动力的生物更喜欢积累事实,而不是偶尔停下来反思这些事实。

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To change skins, evolve into new cycles, I feel one has to learn to discard. If one changes internally, one should not continue to live with the same objects. They reflect one's mind and psyche of yesterday. I throw away what has no dynamic, living use.

为了改变皮肤,进化成新的周期,我觉得一个人必须学会放弃。如果一个对象在内部发生了变化,就不应该继续使用相同的对象。它们反映了一个人昨天的思想和心理。我扔掉那些没有活力、没有生命的东西。

I would like us to think about it more explicitly, and not take our intuitions as the given of ethics, but rather to reflect on it, and be more open about the fact that something is an ethical issues and think what we ought to do about it.

我希望我们能更明确地思考这个问题,而不是把我们的直觉当作道德的既定标准,而是对它进行反思,对道德问题这一事实持更开放的态度,思考我们应该怎么做。

Members of al Qaeda and other affiliated organizations spent a great deal of time blending into the populations of several nations around the world and exploring all aspects of life there.

基地组织和其他附属组织的成员花了大量时间融入世界上几个国家的人群,探索那里生活的方方面面。

If facts are the seeds that later produce knowledge and wisdom, then the emotions and the impressions of the senses are the fertile soil in which the seeds must grow.

如果事实是后来产生知识和智慧的种子,那么情感和感官的印象就是种子生长的沃土。

In a show or a movie, one must work with many people. Many women just don't have the time for it.

在演出或电影中,一个人必须与许多人合作。很多女人就是没有时间。

There seem to me to be very few facts, at least ascertainable facts, in politics.

在我看来,政治中几乎没有事实,至少是可以确定的事实。

I enjoy singing; being in touch with something that is inside of me.

我喜欢唱歌;与我内心的某种东西保持联系。

Don't drink to get drunk. Drink to enjoy life.

不要为了喝醉而喝酒。喝酒享受生活。