Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell.

  • -- George Orwell 乔治·奥威尔

人类不可能拯救文明,除非他能进化出一个与天堂和地狱无关的善恶体系。

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A race preserves its vigour so long as it harbours a real contrast between what has been and what may be, and so long as it is nerved by the vigour to adventure beyond the safeties of the past. Without adventure, civilization is in full decay.

一个民族,只要它在过去和将来之间存在着一种真正的对比,只要它有勇气去冒险,超越过去的安全,它就能保持活力。没有冒险,文明就会完全衰落。

I would seriously question whether anybody is really foolish enough to really say what they mean. Sometimes I think that civilization as we know it would kind of break down if we all were completely honest.

我要严肃地质疑,是否有人真的愚蠢到说出自己的意思。有时我认为,我们所知道的文明会崩溃,如果我们都是完全诚实的。

Man's mind is like a store of idolatry and superstition; so much so that if a man believes his own mind it is certain that he will forsake God and forge some idol in his own brain.

人的心是偶像崇拜和迷信的仓库;甚至如果一个人相信他自己的思想,他一定会抛弃上帝,在自己的头脑中铸造一些偶像。

You have to salvage what you can, even if you're the one who buried it in the first place.

你必须尽你所能抢救,即使你是第一个埋掉它的人。

I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind.

我憎恶战争,认为它是人类最大的灾难。