You seem to think that the only genuine existence evil can have is conscious existence - that no one is evil unless he admits it to himself. I disagree.

  • -- Gene Wolfe 吉恩·沃尔夫

你似乎认为,邪恶能拥有的唯一真正存在是有意识的存在——没有人是邪恶的,除非他自己承认它。我不同意。

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I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.

经过长时间的沉思,我深信,一个有坚定目标的人必须完成它,没有什么能抗拒一种意志,这种意志一旦实现,就连生存也将受到威胁。

The particular features of the photographic method of detecting atomic particles enabled us to establish the existence of transient forms of matter which had escaped recognition by other methods.

探测原子粒子的照相方法的特殊特点使我们能够确定用其他方法无法识别的物质的瞬态形式的存在。

As we saw in the Queen's Speech, anti-social behaviour - a phenomenon that I believe to be a genuine worry that is also being fed by a lot of scare stories - is the political theme of the moment.

正如我们在女王的演讲中所看到的,反社会行为是当前的政治主题。我认为,反社会行为是一种真实的担忧,许多耸人听闻的故事也助长了这种担忧。

What every genuine philosopher (every genuine man, in fact) craves most is praise although the philosophers generally call it recognition!

每一个真正的哲学家(事实上,每一个真正的人)最渴望的是赞美,尽管哲学家们通常称之为认可!

I am only conscious of any satisfaction in Scientific Reading or thinking when it rounds off into a poetical generality and vagueness.

我只有在科学阅读或思考的过程中才会感到满足,因为它最终会变成诗意的概括性和模糊性。

The minute you become conscious that you are doing good, that's the minute you have to stop because from then on it's wrong.

当你意识到自己在做好事的那一刻,就是你必须停下来的那一刻,因为从那一刻起,你就错了。