There is nothing deep down inside us except what we have put there ourselves.

  • -- Richard Rorty 理查德·罗蒂

在我们的内心深处,除了我们自己创造出来的东西,什么都没有。

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A man may lack everything but tact and conviction and still be a forcible speaker; but without these nothing will avail... Fluency, grace, logical order, and the like, are merely the decorative surface of oratory.

一个人可能缺乏一切,除了机智和信念,但仍然是一个强有力的演说家;但没有这些,什么都没有用……流畅、优雅、逻辑秩序等等,只是演讲的装饰表面。

The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.

哲学的要点是从一些简单到不值得陈述的东西开始,以一些自相矛盾到没有人会相信的东西结束。

Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.

当你无话可说时,保持安静;当真正的激情打动你时,说出你想说的话,而且要热情地说。

It's a good thing that beauty is only skin deep, or I'd be rotten to the core.

美丽只是肤浅的,这是一件好事,否则我会腐烂到骨子里。

A jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build one.

蠢驴可以把谷仓踢倒,但需要木匠才能建好。

You shouldn't have to settle for rabbits if what you want is deer.

如果你想要的是鹿,你不应该满足于兔子。

You got to go down a lot of wrong roads to find the right one.

你要走很多错的路才能找到正确的路。

Truth may start out timid, but it finishes bold.

真理开始时也许胆怯,但结束时却勇敢。