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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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。

I feel we live in the kind of culture now where you have to be very smart to navigate the right way, and I just don't have those smarts. I think with age and time it will change, but I can't obsess about it.

我觉得我们生活在这样一种文化中,你必须非常聪明才能找到正确的方向,而我就是没有那种聪明。我认为随着年龄和时间的推移,它会发生变化,但我不能沉迷于它。

I can't tell you how much I love Target and Costco, that kind of culture, because it's something I never felt a part of. I've always felt like a tourist because I have never fit in anywhere.

我无法告诉你我有多爱塔吉特和好市多,那种文化,因为我从来没有感觉自己是其中的一部分。我一直觉得自己像个游客,因为我从来没有适应过任何地方。

Defense contractors are able to reap tremendous profits while rarely confronting the risks for which those profits are supposed to be the reward.

国防承包商能够获得巨大的利润,但却很少面临这些利润本应作为回报的风险。

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。

Don't give up! It's not over. The universe is balanced. Every set-back bears with it the seeds of a come-back.

别放弃!这不是结束。宇宙是平衡的。每一次挫折都孕育着卷土重来的种子。

I have always had a sense that we are all pretty much alone in life, particularly in adolescence.

我一直有一种感觉,我们在生活中几乎都是孤独的,尤其是在青春期。

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。

Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact.

科学是有组织的常识,许多美好的理论都被丑陋的事实扼杀了。

The Boys and Girls Club taught me a lot about sportsmanship, humility, self-respect.

男孩和女孩俱乐部教会了我很多关于体育精神,谦逊,自尊。

The universe begins to look more like a great thought than a great machine.

宇宙开始看起来更像一个伟大的思想而不是一个伟大的机器。

You taught me how to feel the butterflies over and over and over again.

你教我如何一遍又一遍地感受蝴蝶。