The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.

  • -- Ralph Waldo Emerson 拉尔夫·沃尔多·爱默生

人类的终结将是文明的终结。

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People sometimes tell me that they prefer barbarism to civilization. I doubt if they have given it a long enough trial. Like the people of Alexandria, they are bored by civilization; but all the evidence suggests that the boredom of barbarism is infinitely greater.

人们有时告诉我,比起文明,他们更喜欢野蛮。我怀疑他们是否进行了足够长的试验。就像亚历山大的人们一样,他们对文明感到厌倦;但所有的证据都表明,野蛮行为的无聊程度要大得多。

Eventually I would like to touch all the genres. I would like to do some detective stories, and I want to do a Western. I would want to do humorous Westerns.

最后我想接触所有的类型。我想做一些侦探小说,我想做一部西部片。我想拍幽默的西部片。

To a superior race of being the pretensions of mankind to extraordinary sanctity and virtue must seem... ridiculous.

对于一个优越的种族,作为人类对超凡圣洁和美德的自命不凡,似乎……荒谬。

Well, then we got to know each other and eventually worked out a bit of idea of management.

嗯,然后我们互相了解,最后想出了一些管理的点子。

All great civilizations, in their early stages, are based on success in war.

所有伟大的文明,在其早期阶段,都是以战争的胜利为基础的。

I have never made a decision based on race and never will.

我从来没有基于种族做出决定,将来也永远不会。

Not all human souls but only the pious ones are divine.

不是所有的人的灵魂都是神圣的,只有虔诚的人才是神圣的。

Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?

哪里的人性像书店那么脆弱?