I am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which Greek and Roman leave to us.

  • -- Thomas Jefferson 托马斯·杰斐逊

我是个享乐主义者。我认为伊壁鸠鲁真正的(而不是假定的)学说包含了希腊和罗马留给我们的道德哲学的一切理性。

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In real life, the most important decision you ever make is, where does reality leave off and make-believe begin? If you make a mistake about that, you're dead. You know, you're out on the street corner. You think there's no bus coming. You step out, you're dead.

在现实生活中,你做过的最重要的决定是,现实从哪里开始,假装从哪里开始?如果你弄错了,你就死定了。你知道,你就在街角。你以为没有公共汽车来。你出去,你就死定了。

The Internet has given atheists, agnostics, skeptics, the people who like to destroy everything that you and I believe, the almost equal access to your kids as your youth pastor and you have... whether you like it or not.

互联网给了无神论者、不可知论者、怀疑论者、那些喜欢破坏你和我所相信的一切的人,给了你和你的孩子几乎平等的机会,就像你和你的青年牧师一样……不管你喜不喜欢。

However, anyone to whom this happens should not leave his room upon awakening, should speak to no-one, but remain alone and sober until everything comes back to him, and he recalls the dream.

然而,任何人在醒来时都不应该离开自己的房间,不应该和任何人说话,而是保持孤独和清醒,直到一切都回到他的脑海中,他回忆起那个梦。

As we consider the fast pace of scientific and technological progress in our modern world, we must not lose our moral compass and give way to 'free market eugenics'.

当我们考虑到现代世界科学和技术进步的快速步伐时,我们决不能失去我们的道德指南针,让位于“自由市场优生学”。

As if it harm’d me, giving others the same chances and rights as myself-as if it were not indispensable to my own rights that others possess the same.

好像它伤害了我,给别人和我一样的机会和权利——好像别人拥有和我一样的权利并不是我自己的权利所不可缺少的。

I'm all over the place, and I consider myself a bit of a scrounger: 'What will I do next, so I'm not broke?'

我到处都是,我觉得自己有点像一个乞丐:“接下来我要做什么,这样我才不会破产?”

As a general truth, it is safe to say that any picture that produces a moral impression is a bad picture.

作为一个普遍的事实,可以肯定地说,任何给人留下道德印象的画面都是一幅糟糕的画面。

One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.

一个人必须头脑清醒才能清楚地思考,但一个人可以深入思考,而且相当疯狂。

Abhorrence of apartheid is a moral attitude, not a policy.

憎恶种族隔离是一种道德态度,而不是政策。

It's the water. Everything is driven by the water.

这是水。一切都是由水驱动的。