A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
原因
Reason
Love grows. Lust wastes by Enjoyment, and the Reason is, that one springs from an Union of Souls, and the other from an Union of Sense.
爱生长。欲望因享受而浪费，原因是，一个来自灵魂的结合，另一个来自感觉的结合。
There's no reason to stereotype yourself. Doing math is like going to the gym - it's a workout for your brain and it makes you smarter.
没有理由对自己刻板印象。做数学就像去健身房——这是对你大脑的一种锻炼，它让你更聪明。
All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.
我们所有的知识都是从感觉开始，然后到理解，最后到理性为止。没有比理性更高的东西了。
Be as beneficent as the sun or the sea, but if your rights as a rational being are trenched on, die on the first inch of your territory.
要像太阳或大海一样仁慈，但是如果你作为一个理性存在的权利被牢牢地钉住，那就死在你领土的第一寸土地上。
I don't know what my calling is, but I want to be here for a bigger reason. I strive to be like the greatest people who have ever lived.
我不知道我的使命是什么，但我想在这里有一个更重要的原因。我努力成为有史以来最伟大的人。
The reason I am here, they tell me, is that I played the game a certain way, that I played the game the way it was supposed to be played.
他们告诉我，我之所以在这里，是因为我以一种特定的方式打球，我以一种理应如此的方式打球。
There is nothing to fear except the persistent refusal to find out the truth, the persistent refusal to analyze the causes of happenings.
没有什么可怕的，除了坚持不去发现真相，坚持不去分析事情发生的原因。
All myths that are something more than fancies gain rather than lose in value with time, by reason of the accretions of human experience.
所有神话都不仅仅是幻想，而是随着时间的推移，由于人类经验的积累而获得而不是失去价值。
Be a terror to the butchers, that they may be fair in their weight; and keep hucksters and fraudulent dealers in awe, for the same reason.
要叫屠夫惧怕，好叫他们的分量公平。出于同样的原因，让小贩和欺诈性交易商保持敬畏。
In spite of all the yearnings of men, no one can produce a single fact or reason to support the belief in God and in personal immortality.
尽管人类有种种渴望，但没有人能提出一个事实或理由来支持对上帝和个人不朽的信仰。
I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.
我能忍受蛮力，但蛮力的理智是相当难以忍受的。它的使用有些不公平。它打击的是智力。
I think, in a weird way, the reason I was drawn to screenwriting and the reason I really love doing it is because I love writing dialogue.
我想，以一种奇怪的方式，我被剧本写作吸引的原因，以及我真正喜欢写剧本的原因，是因为我喜欢写对话。
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Time makes more converts than reason.
时间比理性更能改变人。
The only reason that it takes me seven years to do stuff is because I just don't really have a plan.
我花七年时间做事的唯一原因是因为我没有一个真正的计划。
The only reason that you do visual is solely for the visual. That's the only reason. It doesn't sell your music for you.
你做视觉的唯一原因仅仅是为了视觉。这是唯一的原因。它不会为你销售你的音乐。
The reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is because it usually goes around wearing overalls looking like hard work.
很多人没有意识到机遇的存在，是因为它总是穿着工装裤走来走去，看上去像在努力工作。
The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa in a very bad light and Africans in very lurid terms. The reason for this had to do with the need to justify the slave trade and slavery.
在过去的四五百年里，欧洲人与非洲的接触产生了大量的文学作品，这些作品把非洲描述得非常糟糕，用非常耸人听闻的语言描述非洲人。其原因与为奴隶贸易和奴隶制辩护的需要有关。
Ours not to reason why, ours but to do and die.
我们不去思考为什么，我们只是去做和死。