There is no such thing as a worthless conversation, provided you know what to listen for. And questions are the breath of life for a conversation.

  • -- James Nathan Miller 詹姆斯·内森·米勒

只要你知道该听什么,就不会有毫无价值的谈话。问题是谈话的生命。

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The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason.

我问自己的第一个问题是,当某样东西看起来不漂亮时,为什么我认为它不漂亮。很快你就会发现没有理由。

How could there be any question of acquiring or possessing, when the one thing needful for a man is to become - to be at last, and to die in the fullness of his being.

当一个人唯一需要的东西是成为——最终成为,并在他存在的充实中死去时,怎么可能有获得或占有的问题呢?

A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us back to essentials: it reveals how dearly we must pay for the invention of speech.

谈话中突然的沉默突然把我们带回本质:它揭示了我们必须为语言的发明付出多大的代价。

Without enthusiasm then what we have surrounded ourselves with becomes worthless.

没有热情,我们周围的一切就会变得毫无价值。

We need to hear the excuses men make to themselves for their worthlessness.

我们需要听到人们为自己的无价值找的借口。

A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless.

一门不能使我们更接近上帝的科学是毫无价值的。

A fat man is worthless in the fields.

一个胖子在田里是一文不值的。