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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Now the big question is if you are going to go to all the trouble of setting an opera and making all that music and so on, there's got to be some aspect that you can do in an opera that really makes it worth while.

现在最大的问题是,如果你要花大力气去设置一个歌剧,制作所有的音乐等等,你必须在歌剧中做一些事情,让它真正有价值。

Man is brilliant at solving problems; but solving them only makes him the victim of his own childishness and laziness. It is this recognition that has made almost every major philosopher in history a pessimist.

人类善于解决问题;但解决这些问题只会让他成为自己幼稚和懒惰的牺牲品。正是这种认识使历史上几乎每一位主要哲学家都成为悲观主义者。

The decision of such judges as Claudius and his Senate is worth very little in the question of a man's innocence or guilt; but the sentence was that Seneca should be banished to the island of Corsica.

像克劳迪斯和他的元老院这样的法官所作的判决,在一个人是无辜还是有罪的问题上毫无价值;但是判决是塞内加应该被放逐到科西嘉岛。

I'm sort of a pessimist about tomorrow and an optimist about the day after tomorrow.

我对明天持悲观态度,对后天持乐观态度。

Every man is as heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse.

每个人都是上天创造的,有时甚至更糟。

A pessimist is one who builds dungeons in the air.

悲观主义者是在空中建造地牢的人。