The myths underlying our culture and underlying our common sense have not taught us to feel identical with the universe, but only parts of it, only in it, only confronting it - aliens.

  • -- Alan Wilson Watts 艾伦·威尔逊·沃茨

我们的文化和常识背后的神话并没有教会我们与宇宙有相同的感觉,而只是宇宙的一部分,只是其中的一部分,只是面对它——外星人。

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The culture is going into a psychological depression. We are concerned about our place in the world, about being competitive: Will my children have as much as I have? Will I ever own my own home? How can I pay for a new car? Are immigrants taking away my white world?

这种文化正在进入一种心理抑郁症。我们关心我们在这个世界上的位置,关心我们的竞争力:我的孩子会和我一样富有吗?我能拥有自己的家吗?我怎样才能买一辆新车?移民正在夺走我的白人世界吗?

I think anybody would have to be with out common sense to think there weren't aliens. There are billions of planets, and I am convinced Earth is not the only one that's inhabited. It would be quite an ego trip to think that. I think about it all the time.

我想所有人都是没有常识的人,才会认为地球上没有外星人。地球上有数十亿颗行星,我相信地球并不是唯一有人居住的星球。这样想未免太自负了。我一直在想这件事。

The diffusion of a universalist culture and of a pedagogy of peace appears more than ever to be the path that we must follow for the salvation of all nations on earth.

普遍主义文化和和平教育的传播似乎比以往任何时候都更成为我们为拯救地球上所有国家而必须走的道路。

Higher education is confronting challenges, like the economy is, about the need for a higher number of more adequately trained, more highly educated citizenry.

高等教育正面临着与经济一样的挑战,即需要更多训练有素、受教育程度更高的公民。

The thing should have plot and character, beginning, middle and end. Arouse pity and then have a catharsis. Those were the best principles I was ever taught.

故事应该有情节和人物,开头,中间和结尾。引起同情,然后有一个宣泄。这些是我所学过的最好的原则。

The ideal and the beautiful are identical; the ideal corresponds to the idea, and beauty to form; hence idea and substance are cognate.

理想与美丽是一致的;理想对应于理想,美对应于形式;因此理念与实体是同源的。

Conservatives used to believe in confronting hard truths, not succumbing to comforting fairy tales. Some still do.

保守派过去相信要面对残酷的事实,而不是屈服于令人宽慰的童话。一些还在做。

The first time I saw E.T., the actual image of an alien, and he was so sweet-looking. I wanted him. I wanted E.T.

我第一次看到外星人他长得那么可爱。我想要他。我想外星人

I'd heard he was good, and what the hell sense does it make not to hire somebody because of their color?

我听说他很不错,但是为什么不雇佣一个肤色不同的人呢?

This is my universe, my time, my world. There is no going back to what was. There is only the future.

这是我的世界,我的时间,我的世界。没有回头路了。只有未来。

It was just one of those moments in the universe that was mine.

这只是宇宙中属于我的时刻之一。

Science is nothing, but trained and organized common sense.

科学不过是训练有素、有组织的常识。

It taught me something. It taught you your craft.

它教会了我一些东西。它教你的手艺。

No two wars are identical.

没有两场战争是相同的。