I have been judged to be a pessimist but what abyss of ignorance and low egoism is not hidden in one who thinks that Man is the god of himself and that his future can only be triumphant?

  • -- Eugenio Montale 蒙塔莱

我一直被认为是一个悲观主义者,但一个认为人是自己的上帝,他的未来只能胜利的人,不隐藏着无知和自私的深渊吗?

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Man is an exception, whatever else he is. If he is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust. If it is not true that a divine being fell, then we can only say that one of the animals went entirely off its head.

人是例外,不管他是什么。他若不是神的形像,便是尘垢的病。如果神的存在不是真的坠落了,那么我们只能说其中的一只动物完全从它的头上掉了下来。

I've been fortunate to come on places where the question isn't why did I do it? The question to me is always, why didn't anybody else do it before me? Those are the ones that I scratch my head about.

我很幸运地遇到这样的情况,问题不在于我为什么要这么做?我的问题总是,为什么没有其他人在我之前做过?这些就是我绞尽脑汁想要解决的问题。

Don't ever become a pessimist... a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun, and neither can stop the march of events.

永远不要成为悲观主义者……悲观主义者比乐观主义者更经常是正确的,但乐观主义者更有乐趣,而且两者都无法阻止事态的发展。

Some people might say, 'Can we afford it?' I think that's asking the wrong question... We should instead be asking, 'Can we really afford not to try?'

有些人可能会说,‘我们能负担得起吗?“我认为这个问题问错了……相反,我们应该问,‘我们真的可以不去尝试吗?’

What white man can say I never stole his land or a penny of his money? Yet they say that I am a thief.

白人能说我从来没有偷过他的土地和一分钱吗?然而他们说我是小偷。