The whole philosophy of modern times is to dissolve distinctions between individuals and deal with them as large collections of people. It's essentially self-interested on the part of authority.

  • -- Tom Stoppard 汤姆·斯托帕德

现代哲学的全部目的是消除个人之间的差别,并把它们当作一大批人来处理。从本质上说,这是对权威的利己主义。

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I lay for a long time in silence, staring at the ceiling. Was my life always to be like this? I wondered. Was it going to go, forever, i an instant, from sunshine to shadow? From pandemonium to loneliness? From fierce anger to a fiercer kind of love?

我静静地躺了很长时间,眼睛盯着天花板。我的生活一直是这样吗?我想知道。它会永远,永远,我一瞬间,从阳光到阴影?从混乱到孤独?从激烈的愤怒到更激烈的爱?

We are just interested in dealing with the people we're paying every day. We know federal law allows them to vote in a union at anytime, but we think we can resist that by talking to our own people and giving them enough upside.

我们感兴趣的只是和我们每天付钱的人打交道。我们知道联邦法律允许他们在任何时候在一个联盟中投票,但是我们认为我们可以通过与我们自己的人民对话并给予他们足够的好处来抵制这种做法。

Romanticism is the expression of man's urge to rise above reason and common sense, just as rationalism is the expression of his urge to rise above theology and emotion.

浪漫主义是人超越理性和常识的冲动的表现,正如理性主义是人超越神学和情感的冲动的表现一样。

I am not interested in women just because they're women. I am interested, however, in seeing that they are no longer classed with children and minors.

我对女人不感兴趣,仅仅因为她们是女人。然而,我有兴趣看到他们不再被划分为儿童和未成年人。

Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.

以权相争的,不是用自己的聪明;他只是在利用他的记忆。

I try to keep it real. I don't have time to worry about what I'm projecting to the world. I'm just busy being myself.

我试着保持真实。我没有时间去担心我要向世界展示什么。我只是忙着做我自己。

The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.

好人对公共事务漠不关心所付出的代价就是被坏人统治。

There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.

没有一种道德权威比得上牺牲。