优文网

All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.

  • -- Thomas Carlyle 托马斯·卡莱尔

人类所做的、想过的或曾经做过的一切，都像魔法一样保存在书页之中。

标签

Lying Mankind Magic Book Books Reading

相关名言

When I die there may be a paragraph or two in the newspapers. My name will linger in the British Museum Reading Room catalogue for a space at the head of a long list of books for which no one will ever ask.

我死后，报纸上可能会有一两段。我的名字将会出现在大英博物馆阅览室的目录中，在一长串无人问询的书单的最前面。

阅读 +

The fact is, every thinker, every philosopher, the moment he is forced to abandon his one-sided intellectual occupation by practical necessity, immediately returns to the general point of view of mankind.

事实上，每一个思想家，每一个哲学家，当他因为实际的需要而被迫放弃他片面的知识工作的时候，就立即回到人类的一般观点上来。

阅读 +

He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and third time, till at length it becomes habitual.

一个允许自己撒一次谎的人，发现第二次和第三次更容易，直到最后成为习惯。

阅读 +

There are treasures in books that all the money in the world cannot buy, but the poorest laborer can have for nothing.

书中有许多珍宝，是世界上所有的钱都买不到的，但是最贫穷的劳动者却可以免费得到。

阅读 +

You can be too rich and too thin, but you can never be too well read or too curious about the world.

你可以太有钱，也可以太瘦，但你永远不可能读得太好或对世界太好奇。

阅读 +

The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.

真正的伪君子是那些不再觉察自己的欺骗，不再真诚地说谎的人。

阅读 +

History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.

历史不过是人类罪恶、愚蠢和不幸的记录。

阅读 +

The odd thing about people who had many books was how they always wanted more.

拥有很多书的人的奇怪之处在于他们总是想要更多的书。

阅读 +

Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes... just be an illus ion.

爱有时是有魔力的。但魔法有时可以……就当个病人吧 离子。

阅读 +

All the magic in the world can’t simplify affairs of the heart.

世界上所有的魔法都不能简化人心中的事。

阅读 +

I'm trying to finish my book on the Kennedy assassination.

我正在写一本关于肯尼迪遇刺的书。

阅读 +

Libraries raised me.

库提高了我。

阅读 +

热门话题