I'm a Utilitarian, so I don't see the rule against lying as absolute; it's always subject to some overriding utility which may prevent its exercise.

  • -- Peter Albert David Singer 彼得·艾伯特·大卫·辛格

我是个功利主义者,所以我不认为反对说谎的规则是绝对的;它总是受制于一些凌驾于它之上的实用程序,这可能会阻止它的运行。

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Love consists in giving without getting in return; in giving what is not owed, what is not due the other. That's why true love is never based, as associations for utility or pleasure are, on a fair exchange.

爱在于付出而不求回报;给予别人不欠别人的,别人也不欠你的。这就是为什么真爱从来就不是建立在公平交换的基础上的,就像功利或快乐的联想一样。

Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.

躺在床上是一种完美的、至高无上的体验,只要你有一支足够长的彩色铅笔在天花板上画画。

When I'm on the road, I'll break my exercise into a cardio session and a weights session.

当我在路上的时候,我会把我的运动分成有氧运动和举重运动。

When men are ruled by fear, they strive to prevent the very changes that will abate it.

当人们被恐惧所控制时,他们会努力阻止那些能够减轻恐惧的变化。

I have a taste for a kind of melancholy and for being an absolute victim of love.

我喜欢一种忧郁,喜欢成为爱情的牺牲品。

People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.

人们说谎最多的时候是打猎之后、战争期间或选举之前。

Reading - the best state yet to keep absolute loneliness at bay.

阅读——远离绝对孤独的最佳状态。

If you exercise your mind, you're not going to get sick.

如果你锻炼你的思维,你就不会生病。

I don't try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.

我不想描述未来。我试图阻止它。

Saving a life overrides territories.

拯救生命超越疆域。