A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke - and that the joke is oneself.

  • -- Clifton Fadiman 克利夫顿·费迪曼

幽默感是理解笑话的能力——而笑话就是你自己。

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All phenomena are real in some sense, unreal in some sense, meaningless in some sense, real and meaningless in some sense, unreal and meaningless in some sense, and real and unreal and meaningless in some sense.

所有的现象在某种意义上都是真实的,在某种意义上都是不真实的,在某种意义上都是无意义的,在某种意义上都是真实而无意义的,在某种意义上都是不真实而无意义的,在某种意义上都是真实而不真实而无意义的。

The one thing that I appear to have been given, bearing in mind that I am capable of being very, very scatty and extremely lazy, is the ability to concentrate on something I choose to give my time to.

有一件事我似乎已经被赋予了,记住我有能力变得非常、非常分散、非常懒惰,那就是专注于我选择花时间去做的事情的能力。

One must not make oneself cheap here - that is a cardinal point - or else one is done. Whoever is most impertinent has the best chance.

在这里,一个人不能使自己变得廉价——这是一个基本的观点——否则他就完了。谁最无礼,谁就有最好的机会。

I think reading Shakespeare's plays when I was young was extremely important. He had the ability to make utter strangers come alive.

我认为在我年轻的时候读莎士比亚的戏剧是非常重要的。他有能力让完全陌生的人活过来。

To convince oneself that one has the right to live decently takes time.

说服自己有权利过体面的生活需要时间。

Science is nothing, but trained and organized common sense.

科学不过是训练有素、有组织的常识。