If what the heart approves conforms to proper patterns, then even if one's desires are many, what harm would they be to good order?

  • -- Xunzi 荀子

如果心所赞同的符合适当的模式,那么即使一个人的欲望很多,它们对良好的秩序又有什么害处呢?

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Whenever we approve, we can find a hundred good reasons to justify our approbation. Whenever we dislike, we can find a thousand to justify our dislike.

每当我们赞同时,我们可以找到一百个好的理由来证明我们的赞同是正确的。每当我们不喜欢的时候,我们可以找到一千个理由来证明我们的不喜欢。

And I always read the English translation and always have conversations with my translator, for example about the names. I always have to approve it.

我经常阅读英文译本,也经常和我的翻译交谈,比如关于名字的问题。我总是要批准它。

Evolution is more about the condition of the heart of a man who does not want to acknowledge God than it is about the facts.

进化更多的是关于一个不愿承认上帝的人的内心状况,而不是事实。

It doesn’t take objectivity to know what you want, and you’re not objective enough to know what you need.

知道自己想要什么并不需要客观,你也不够客观,不知道自己需要什么。

Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.

几乎我们所有的欲望,当被审视时,都包含着一些羞于启齿的东西。

My heart is a lonely hunter that hunts on a lonely hill.

我的心是一个孤独的猎人,在孤独的山上狩猎。