A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
原因
Reason
Today i caught myself smiling for no reason.. Then i realized i was thinking about you.
今天我发现自己无缘无故地笑了。然后我意识到我在想你。
The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason.
最后一个诱惑是最大的背叛:以错误的理由做正确的事。
Reason clears and plants the wilderness of the imagination to harvest the wheat of art.
理性清除并播下想象的荒野，收获艺术的麦粒。
Sometimes you just need a good cry. Even if you don't know the reason why you're crying.
有时候你只需要好好哭一场。即使你不知道为什么哭泣。
The reason there's so much ignorance is that those who have it are so eager to share it.
无知之所以如此之多，是因为拥有无知的人非常渴望分享无知。
The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.
人类之所以不听从我们，是因为他们看到了我们眼睛底下的泥。
We can only reason from what is; we can reason on actualities, but not on possibilities.
我们只能从事实中推理;我们可以根据现实来推理，但不能根据可能性来推理。
I go on expeditions for the same reason an estate agent sells houses - to pay the bills.
我去探险的原因和房地产经纪人卖房子的原因是一样的——付账单。
What writer wants to make compromises with story? Story is the only reason you're in it.
哪个作家愿意在故事中妥协?故事是你参与其中的唯一原因。
I like being in love, but loving is what is crucial to me. Loving is the reason to live.
我喜欢恋爱，但爱对我来说是至关重要的。爱是活着的理由。
The only reason we cant see the future, is because we havent created it in our heads yet.
我们看不到未来的唯一原因，是因为我们还没有在头脑中创造未来。
Reason enables us to get around in the world of ideas, but cannot prescribe our thoughts.
理智使我们能够在思想的世界里漫游，却不能规定我们的思想。
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If an animal does something, we call it instinct; if we do the same thing for the same reason, we call it intelligence.
如果动物做了什么，我们称之为本能;如果我们出于同样的原因做同样的事情，我们称之为智慧。
Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.
美德是一种心智的习惯，与自然、节制和理性相一致。
He did not arrive at this conclusion by the decent process of quiet, logical deduction, nor yet by the blinding flash of glorious intuition, but by the shoddy, untidy process halfway between the two by which one usually gets to know things.
他得出这个结论，既不是靠平静的、合乎逻辑的推理，也不是靠闪光的、令人眼花缭乱的直觉，而是靠一种粗陋的、杂乱无章的、介于两者之间的过程，人们通常是通过这种过程来认识事物的。
The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was and the present worse than it is.
人们发现很难快乐的原因是他们总是看到过去比过去更好，现在比过去更糟。
Reason respects the differences, and imagination the similitudes of things.
理性尊重事物的差异，想象尊重事物的相似之处。
The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.
聪明人受理智的指导，平庸的人受经验的指导，愚蠢的人受需要的指导，野蛮的人受本能的指导。