A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
原因
Reason
The main reason he wanted to be a recording artist was because it gives you much more freedom in your writing. You only have to please the artist and the artist is you so you can be more daring and experimental.
他想成为一名录音艺术家的主要原因是，这给了你更多的写作自由。你只需要取悦艺术家，而艺术家就是你，这样你就可以更大胆，更有实验精神。
The main reason I write the daily observations is because I want to know where I'm wrong. So lots of times if somebody points something out it helps me, and I want to have a diversified bet of uncorrelated bets.
我写每日观察的主要原因是我想知道我哪里错了。很多时候，如果有人指出了一些东西，这对我很有帮助，我想对不相关的投注进行多样化的投注。
For some reason, I seem to be bothered whenever I see acts of injustice and assaults on people's civil liberties. I imagine what I write in the future will follow in that vein. Whether it's fiction or non-fiction.
出于某种原因，每当我看到不公正的行为和对公民自由的侵犯时，我似乎都会感到不安。我想我将来写的东西也会遵循这种风格。不管是小说还是非小说。
There is no more reason why the features belonging to a picture should be distorted for the purpose of such imaginative suggestion than that the poet's metaphors should spoil his words for the ordinary uses of man.
没有什么比诗人的比喻破坏了他的文字，使其不能用于人类的日常用途更能说明为什么一幅画的特征会被这样富有想象力的暗示所歪曲了。
The man who can reason properly can invent; and anyone who wants to invent must be able to reason. The only people who think that the one can be separated from the other are those who have no inclination for either.
能正确推理的人能发明;任何想要发明的人都必须能够推理。只有那些对两者都没有兴趣的人才认为两者是可以分离的。
What, but the rapacity of the only men who exercised their reason, the priests, secured such vast property to the church, when a man gave his perishable substance to save himself from the dark torments of purgatory.
除了那些唯一行使理智的人，即教士们的贪婪之外，还有什么能使教会获得如此巨大的财产呢?一个人为了摆脱炼狱的黑暗折磨，献出了他易腐烂的物质。
Reason guides our attempt to understand the world about us. Both reason and compassion guide our efforts to apply that knowledge ethically, to understand other people, and have ethical relationships with other people.
理性引导我们试图了解周围的世界。理性和同情心都引导我们努力将知识运用到道德上，去理解他人，并与他人建立道德关系。
Could that have been what happened to the human race - a willing perversity that set at naught all human values which had been so hardly won and structured in the light of reason for a span of more than a million years?
难道这就是发生在人类身上的事情——一种心甘情愿的任性行为，无视人类的一切价值，而这些价值在一百多万年的时间里是如此难以赢得，而且是按照理性来构建的吗?
The other reason that I am here today, again from the State Department and from the court record of the court of appeals, is that when I am abroad I speak out against the injustices against the Negro people of this land.
我今天来到这里的另一个原因，同样来自国务院和上诉法院的法庭记录，是当我在国外时，我大声疾呼反对这片土地上对黑人的不公正。
Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.
伟大的心灵总是会遭到平庸心智的激烈反对。如果一个人不是不加思索地屈从于遗传的偏见，而是诚实而勇敢地运用他的智慧，那么后者就无法理解这一点。
I don't know who I touch and who I don't. I work hard trying to make people laugh. I try to do the kind of stuff that made me laugh growing up. I don't have any secrets. I don't know the reasons I've been so well received.
我不知道我碰过谁，也不知道我不碰谁。我努力让人们笑。我试着做一些能让我笑着长大的事情。我没有什么秘密。我不知道为什么我受到如此热烈的欢迎。
Before anything else, we need a new age of Enlightenment. Our present political systems must relinquish their claims on truth, justice and freedom and have to replace them with the search for truth, justice, freedom and reason.
首先，我们需要一个启蒙的新时代。我们目前的政治制度必须放弃对真理、正义和自由的要求，而代之以对真理、正义、自由和理性的追求。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
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。
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。
Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.
理智和判断是领导者的品质。
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。
A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.
一个好的头脑和一颗善良的心永远是一个强大的组合。
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。