How can an act done under compulsion have any moral element in it, seeing that what is moral is the free act of an intelligent being?

  • -- Auberon Edward William Molyneux Herbert 奥伯伦·爱德华·威廉·莫利纽斯·赫伯特

既然什么是道德就是一个有智慧的人的自由行为,那么在强迫之下所做的行为怎么可能有道德成分呢?

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Genius is not a possession of the limited few, but exists in some degree in everyone. Where there is natural growth, a full and free play of faculties, genius will manifest itself.

天才不是少数人的财产,而是在某种程度上存在于每个人身上。只要有自然的成长,才能的充分而自由的发挥,天才就会显现出来。

If we are now holding late-night talk-show hosts to the same moral accountability as we hold politicians or clergymen, I'm out. I'm gone.

如果我们现在让深夜脱口秀主持人承担与政客或牧师同样的道德责任,我就出局了。我走了。

The will is not free it is a phenomenon bound by cause and effect but there is something behind the will which is free.

意志不是自由的,它是一种因与果相结合的现象,但在自由意志的背后有某种东西。

The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good.

最痛苦的道德斗争不是善恶之间的斗争,而是善与恶之间的斗争。

With what relish we go about so many things, which we claim to have been forced into.

我们带着多么愉快的心情去做那么多事情,而我们却声称是被迫去做的。

Only work which is the product of inner compulsion can have spiritual meaning.

只有内在冲动的产物,工作才具有精神意义。