A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
原因
Reason
The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.
直觉的头脑是神圣的礼物,理性的头脑是忠实的仆人。我们创造了一个尊重仆人而忘记礼物的社会。
And hence he must be invisible; for a spirit cannot be seen by the eye of man: nor is there any thing in this principle contradictory to reason or experience.
因此他必须是隐形的;因为人的眼睛是看不见精神的。在这个原则里,也没有什么东西是与理性或经验相矛盾的。
With reasonable men, I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost.
有理智的人,我要讲道理;我要向仁慈的人恳求;但对于暴君,我不会宽容,也不会在他们一定会失败的地方浪费争论。
Among the reasons people keep sad stories to themselves is that they do not want anyone to feel sorry for them. I don't. I don't want you to feel sorry for me.
人们把悲伤的故事留给自己的原因之一是他们不想让任何人为他们感到难过。我不喜欢。我不想你为我感到难过。
If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be 'meetings.'
如果你必须用一个词来说明人类没有实现、也永远不会实现其全部潜力的原因,那么这个词就是“会议”。
Yeah, for some reason parrots have to bite me. That's their job. I don't know why that is. They've nearly torn my nose off. I've had some really bad parrot bites.
是的,因为某种原因,鹦鹉不得不咬我。这是他们的工作。我不知道为什么。他们差点把我的鼻子扯下来。我被鹦鹉咬得很厉害。
If forgers and malefactors are put to death by the secular power, there is much more reason for excommunicating and even putting to death one convicted of heresy.
如果伪造者和罪犯被世俗权力处死,那么就有更多的理由将一个被判异端的人逐出教会,甚至处死。
I think that the reason for my success is that I am really not aspirational. I am inspirational in that the people at home feel like they can really relate to me.
我认为我成功的原因是我真的没有抱负。我很鼓舞人心,因为家里的人觉得他们真的能与我产生共鸣。
No producer should revive a play unless they have a very good reason for it. I think there's quite enough about a good play to make it available to new audiences.
除非有很好的理由,否则任何制片人都不应该重播一部戏。我认为一部好剧足够吸引新观众了。
That is - the reason for that is that home prices are only going to go up. Now, they've never gone down nationwide in our - since we've been keeping track of this.
原因是房价只会上涨。现在,他们从来没有在全国范围内下降,因为我们一直在跟踪这个。
Preaching to the choir actually arms the choir with arguments and elevates the choir's discourse. There's a reason the right does it and does it well and triumphs.
向唱诗班讲道实际上是用争论武装唱诗班,提升唱诗班的话语。右派这么做是有原因的,而且做得很好,并且取得了胜利。
There is no more reason to believe that man descended from some inferior animal than there is to believe that a stately mansion has descended from a small cottage.
我们没有理由相信人是低等动物的后裔,正如我们没有理由相信一座富丽堂皇的大厦是一座小别墅的后裔一样。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
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。
Vicodin, I got addicted to that little pill. The reason I don't talk about it too much in the press is because it isn't funny, and I love to be funny in interviews. If you joke about that period in your life, it doesn't seem right.
维柯丁,我对那种小药丸上瘾了。我不常在媒体上谈论它的原因是因为它并不有趣,而我喜欢在采访中表现得有趣。如果你拿你生命中的那段时间开玩笑,这似乎是不对的。
Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal.
人是理性的动物,而不是理性的动物。
Believe nothing, no matter where you read it or who has said it, not even if i have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.
不要相信任何东西,无论你在哪里读到的,也无论谁说过,即使我说过,也不要相信,除非它符合你自己的理性和常识。
I write of the wish that comes true - for some reason, a terrifying concept.
我写的愿望成真——出于某种原因,一个可怕的概念。
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。