Everything deep is also simple and can be reproduced simply as long as its reference to the whole truth is maintained. But what matters is not what is witty but what is true.

  • -- Albert Schweitzer 艾伯特·施韦策

一切深刻的东西都是简单的,只要保持对整个真理的参照,就可以简单地再现出来。但重要的不是机智,而是真实。

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Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves.

人的本性就是如此,无论他们如何承认别人比自己更机智、更雄辩或更有学问;然而,他们几乎不会相信有许多人像他们一样聪明。

Grandeur and beauty are so very opposite, that you often diminish the one as you increase the other. Variety is most akin to the latter, simplicity to the former.

宏伟与美丽是如此的对立,以至于你常常在增加美与减少美的同时,也在减少美。多样性与后者最为相似,简单性与前者最为相似。

There is an abundance of misinformation, exaggeration, and blatant lies being spread by interest groups regarding the prospects for embryonic stem cell research.

关于胚胎干细胞研究的前景,利益集团散布了大量的错误信息、夸大和明目张胆的谎言。

What you do, is you gradually become more and more experienced, and more and more realistic about dramatic tolerance, i.e. about how long the play should be.

你所做的,是你逐渐变得越来越有经验,越来越现实关于戏剧的宽容,也就是戏剧应该演多久。

Our demands are simple, normal, and therefore they are difficult to satisfy. All we ask is that an actor on the stage live in accordance with natural laws.

我们的要求简单、正常,因此很难满足。我们所要求的只是舞台上的演员要按照自然规律生活。

The solutions all are simple - after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are.

所有的解决方案都很简单——在你找到它们之后。但只有当你已经知道它们是什么时,它们才会变得简单。

Why should we live with such hurry and waste of life? We are determined to be starved before we are hungry.

我们为什么要如此匆忙而浪费生命呢?我们决定先挨饿后挨饿。

As long as you live keep smiling because it brightens everybody's day.

只要你活着,保持微笑,因为它照亮了每个人的一天。

In fact, to gull a fool seems to me an exploit worthy of a witty man.

事实上,欺骗一个傻瓜在我看来是一种值得一个机智的人去做的事情。

There's nothing wrong with being fired.

被解雇没有什么错。