The pleasure we derive from doing favors is partly in the feeling it gives us that we are not altogether worthless. It is a pleasant surprise to ourselves.

  • -- Eric Hoffer 埃里克·霍弗

我们从帮忙中获得的快乐部分来自于它给我们的感觉,我们并非一无是处。这对我们来说是一个惊喜。

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We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of Time. And there are but two means of escaping and forgetting this nightmare: pleasure and work. Pleasure consumes us. Work strengthens us. Let us choose.

我们每时每刻都被时间的概念和感觉压得喘不过气来。只有两种方法可以逃避和忘记这个噩梦:快乐和工作。我们快乐消费。增强我们工作。让我们选择。

As I have practiced it, photography produces pleasure by simplicity. I see something special and show it to the camera. A picture is produced. The moment is held until someone sees it. Then it is theirs.

在我的实践中,摄影通过简单产生快乐。我看到一些特别的东西,并把它展示给相机。生成了一幅图。这一刻一直等到有人看到。那么它就是他们的了。

I hate the whole race. There is no believing a word they say, your professional poets, I mean there never existed a more worthless set than Byron and his friends for example.

我讨厌整个种族。没有人相信他们说的话,你的职业诗人,我的意思是,没有比拜伦和他的朋友们更没有价值的了。

The best is he who calls men to the best. And those who heed the call are also blessed. But worthless who call not, heed not, but rest.

最好的人是召唤最好的人的人。那些听从召唤的人也是有福的。惟有那不求告的,是无用的,留心而得安息。

The wisest of you men is he who has realized, like Socrates, that in respect of wisdom he is really worthless.

你们当中最聪明的人,就是像苏格拉底那样,认识到自己在智慧方面是一文不值的人。

We grow tired of everything but turning others into ridicule, and congratulating ourselves on their defects.

我们厌倦了一切,除了把别人变成笑柄,并为他们的缺点而庆幸自己。

We understand God by everything in ourselves that is fragmentary, incomplete, and inopportune.

我们藉著自己身上一切残缺的、不完全的、不合时宜的,来认识神。

There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being.

没有什么比存在的惊喜更神奇的了。

A man without enemies is worthless.

没有敌人的人毫无价值。