Common sense is the most fairly distributed thing in the world, for each one thinks he is so well-endowed with it that even those who are hardest to satisfy in all other matters are not in the habit of desiring more of it than they already have.

  • -- René Descartes 任_笛卡尔

常识是世界上分布得最均匀的东西,因为每个人都认为自己很有天赋,即使是那些在其他事情上最难满足的人,也没有比他们已经拥有的东西更渴望得到常识的习惯。

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Indeed, a quick glance around this broken world makes it painfully obvious that we don't need more arguments on behalf of God; we need more people who live as if they are in covenant with Unconditional Love, which is our best definition of God.

的确,环顾一下这个破碎的世界,我们就会痛苦地发现,我们不需要为上帝进行更多的辩论;我们需要更多的人生活在无条件的爱的契约中,这是我们对上帝最好的定义。

A man that'd expict to thrain lobsters to fly in a year is called a loonytic; but a man that thinks men can be tur-rned into angels by an iliction is called a rayformer an' remains at large.

一个人如果一年内被赶去捕龙虾,他就被称为疯子;但是,如果一个人认为人可以通过魔法变成天使,那他就被称为“射线制造者”,他仍然逍遥法外。

Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.

常识和幽默感是一回事,它们以不同的速度运动。幽默感就是常识,跳舞。

The magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from what they are really doing.

魔术师和政客有很多共同点:他们都必须把我们的注意力从他们真正在做的事情上转移开。

Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart.

渺小的人需要专制来锻炼他们的肌肉,正如伟大的灵魂渴望平等来发挥他们的心灵。

If forgiveness, kindness and humanity could have changed something; today we would have been living a peaceful world.

如果宽恕、善良和人性能够改变一些事情;今天我们将生活在一个和平的世界。

The highest proof of the spirit is love. Love the eternal thing which can already on earth possess as it really is.

爱是精神的最高证明。爱是永恒的东西,它已经在地球上真正拥有了。

I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.

我认为这完全是爱的问题:你越爱一段记忆,它就越强大,越陌生。

Magic: it was what happened when the mind met the world, and the mind won for a change.

魔法:这就是当心灵与世界相遇时所发生的事情,心灵赢得了改变。

Spending way too long worrying about what people think about me is a bad habit.

花太多时间担心别人对我的看法是一个坏习惯。

There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.

下周不可能发生危机。我的日程已经排满了。

Habit will reconcile us to everything but change.

习惯能使我们适应一切,但改变除外。