If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons.

  • -- C. S. Lewis C.S.刘易斯

如果我们仅仅因为野兽不能阻止我们,因为我们在为生存而斗争中支持自己的一方,那么出于同样的原因而把蠢货、罪犯、敌人或资本家斩了,也就合乎逻辑了。

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When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand.

当我们诚实地问自己生命中谁对我们最重要时,我们常常发现,是那些人,他们没有给出建议、解决方案或治愈方法,而是选择与我们分享痛苦,用温暖而温柔的手触摸我们的伤口。

Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war... Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest.

告诉我们要服从本能就像告诉我们要服从人一样。人们会说不同的话,直觉也是如此。我们的本能处于战争状态…每一种本能,如果你听从它,都会声称以牺牲其他本能为代价而得到满足。

In the present epoch of struggle between two worlds the two opposing and antagonistic trends penetrating the foundations of nearly all branches of biology are particularly sharply defined.

在当今两个世界之间斗争的时代,渗透到几乎所有生物学分支基础上的两种对立和对立的趋势得到了特别明确的界定。

Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.

绘画我的经历,翻译我的感受,就像一种巨大的解放。但它也是工作、自省、自觉、批判、奋斗。

It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.

把人分成好人和坏人是荒谬的。人要么迷人,要么乏味。

A black cat crossing your path signifies that the animal is going somewhere.

一只黑猫横穿过你的道路意味着这只动物要去某个地方。

He will never have true friends who is afraid of making enemies.

害怕树敌的人永远不会有真正的朋友。

If the world were a logical place, men would ride side saddle.

如果世界是一个合乎逻辑的地方,男人就会骑着侧鞍。

Do not try to fight a lion if you are not one yourself.

如果你自己不是狮子,就不要试图和狮子搏斗。

Intuition is a suspension of logic due to impatience.

由于缺乏耐心,直觉是逻辑的中止。

Without losers, where would the winners be?

没有失败者,胜利者在哪里?

Lying can never save us from another lie.

谎言永远不能把我们从另一个谎言中拯救出来。