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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It has been rightly said that nothing is unimportant, nothing powerless in the universe; a single atom can dissolve everything, and save everything! What terror! There lies the eternal distinction between good and evil.

有人说得对,宇宙中没有什么是不重要的,没有什么是无能为力的;一个原子就可以溶解一切,拯救一切!什么恐怖!善恶之间有着永恒的区别。

I come from a country and also a continent whose identity is in the making. We're a very young culture, and I think that things are not yet crystallised.

我来自一个国家,也来自一个身份正在形成的大陆。我们是一个非常年轻的文化,我认为事情还没有具体化。

People don't have a good intuitive sense of how to weigh new information in light of what they already know. They tend to overrate it.

人们没有很好的直觉,知道如何根据他们已经知道的来衡量新信息。他们倾向于高估它。

The negative side to globalization is that it wipes out entire economic systems and in doing so wipes out the accompanying culture.

全球化的负面影响是它摧毁了整个经济体系,同时也摧毁了伴随而来的文化。

I guess I had it made. My mother gave me advice - she taught me that women like to be looked in the eye - and my grandmother gave.

我想我已经做好了。我母亲给了我建议——她教我女人喜欢被注视的眼睛——而我祖母给了我建议。

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 always told everybody the perfect joke would be where the setup and punch line were identical.

我总是对每个人说,最完美的笑话应该是设置和妙语相同的地方。

Oxford also taught me something else - it taught me scepticism.

牛津还教会了我一些别的东西——它教会了我怀疑。

Have common sense and stick to the point.

要有常识,不要拐弯抹角。

Shine like the whole universe is yours.

闪耀吧,就像整个宇宙都是你的。