The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.

  • -- Bertrand Russell 罗素

哲学的要点是从一些简单到不值得陈述的东西开始,以一些自相矛盾到没有人会相信的东西结束。

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I want to believe that those who have been appointed to accomplish this mission will be totally committed, devoting all their skills and determination to their work. I urge you to lend them your support so that, together, we can build that bright future worthy of our country.

我要相信,那些被任命来完成这项任务的人将完全致力于这项任务,将他们所有的技能和决心都投入到他们的工作中。我敦促你们向他们提供支持,这样,我们就能共同建设一个配得上我们国家的光明未来。

I don't believe in lobbying only progressives and liberal members of Congress. I don't believe in doing interviews only with those who share my views. I want to reach a wider audience.

我不相信只游说进步人士和自由派国会议员。我不相信只采访与我观点相同的人。我想接触更广泛的观众。

All people are paradoxical. No one is easily reducible, so I like characters who have contradictory impulses or shades of ambiguity. It's fun, and it's fun because it's hard.

所有的人都是矛盾的。没有人是可以轻易还原的,所以我喜欢那些有矛盾冲动或模棱两可的角色。它很有趣,因为它很难。

But you'd have a job to find many of my poems which would seem to be very influenced by a particular person.

但你得找份工作,才能找到我的很多诗歌,它们似乎都深受某个人的影响。

It is of the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it.

欲望的本质是不满足的,大多数人只是为了欲望的满足而生活。

I seem to always inspire a strong reaction one way or the other.

我似乎总是以这样或那样的方式激起强烈的反应。

Praise does not make anything better or worse.

表扬不会使事情变得更好或更糟。

Power is paradoxical.

权力是矛盾的。