If time is money, it seems moral to save time, above all one's own, and such parsimony is excused by consideration for others. One is straight-forward.

  • -- Theodor W. Adorno 狄奥多·阿多诺

如果时间就是金钱,那么节约时间似乎是合乎道德的,尤其是节省自己的时间,而为他人着想可以为这种节俭开脱。一个是直接的。

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By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The sky seems to be a pure, a cooler blue, the trees a deeper green. The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet.

通过阅读圣经,我是如此的新生,所有的自然似乎在我周围和我更新。天空似乎一片纯净,一片湛蓝,树木一片翠绿。整个世界充满了上帝的荣耀,我感到脚下有火焰和音乐。

Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.

经验要求人是唯一一种吞噬同类的动物,因为我无法用更温和的词来形容富人对穷人的普遍掠夺。

When I get ready to talk to people, I spend two thirds of the time thinking what they want to hear and one third thinking about what I want to say.

当我准备和别人交谈时,我花三分之二的时间想他们想听什么,三分之一的时间想我想说什么。

It is of course the nature of historical contraction that the shortest distance to a historical destination is never a straight line.

当然,历史收缩的本质是,到历史终点的最短距离绝不是一条直线。

How can an act done under compulsion have any moral element in it, seeing that what is moral is the free act of an intelligent being?

既然什么是道德就是一个有智慧的人的自由行为,那么在强迫之下所做的行为怎么可能有道德成分呢?

I try to sit down at the typewriter four times a day, even if it's only five minutes, and write three sentences.

我试着每天四次坐在打字机前,哪怕只有五分钟,写三个句子。

There was never an age in which useless knowledge was more important than our own.

从来没有一个时代,无用的知识比我们自己的知识更重要。

Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems.

衡量敌人的力量,最好不要看他的外表。

Taking the life of another is always a moral crime.

杀害他人永远是一种道德犯罪。

You cannot make a crab walk straight.

你不能使螃蟹直着走。