No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa.

  • -- Eugene Ionesco 尤内斯库

没有一个社会能够消除人类的悲伤,没有一个政治制度能够把我们从生活的痛苦、对死亡的恐惧和对绝对的渴望中解救出来。是人的条件决定了社会的条件,而不是社会条件决定人的条件。

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With a firm and steadfast mind one should hold under all conditions, that everywhere the earth is below and the sky above, and to the energetic man, every region is his fatherland.

在任何情况下,一个人都应该有坚定而坚定的思想,那就是地球在下面,天空在上面,对精力充沛的人来说,每一个地区都是他的祖国。

Without a notion of the transcendental, human beings would, indeed, be animals; however, only fools can be convinced of it, and only degenerates need such a conviction.

如果没有超验的概念,人类就会变成动物;然而,只有傻瓜才会相信它,只有堕落的人才需要这样的信念。

If there is technological advance without social advance, there is, almost automatically, an increase in human misery.

如果有技术进步而没有社会进步,人类的苦难几乎会自动增加。

It is surely a great calamity for a human being to have no obsessions.

对一个人来说,没有执着无疑是一个巨大的灾难。

As we ascend the social ladder, viciousness wears a thicker mask.

当我们攀登社会阶梯时,邪恶戴着更厚的面具。

A lot of times you're just conditioned by what's around you.

很多时候,你只是受到周围环境的制约。