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确定
Certainty
Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
探究对确定性是致命的。
Certainty is better than hope.
确信胜于希望。
To believe with certainty we must begin with doubting.
要确信地相信，我们必须从怀疑开始。
No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.
没有一件伟大的事情是由寻求确定性的弱者完成的。
Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
信念是真理比谎言更危险的敌人。
A bird in hand is a certainty. But a bird in the bush may sing.
有一只鸟在手是肯定的。但是灌木丛中的鸟也会唱歌。
More important than the quest for certainty is the quest for clarity.
比追求确定性更重要的是追求清晰。
Uncertainty is an uncomfortable position, but certainty is an absurd one.
不确定性是一种不舒服的状态，但确定性是一种荒谬的状态。
The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.
最好的缺乏所有的信念，而最差的充满激情的强度。
Ah, what a dusty answer gets the soul when hot for certainties in this our life!
啊，当我们在这一生中急于求成的时候，多么枯燥无味的回答却能使灵魂得到满足!
The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.
对确定性的要求是人类的天性，但也是一种智力上的恶习。
Certainty is the mother of quiet and repose, and uncertainty the cause of variance and contentions.
确定是平静与安宁之母，不确定是分歧与争吵之源。
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沿着这个主题，再读几句。
And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human.
有那么一瞬间，她直直地盯着那双柔和的蓝眼睛，带着一种哺乳动物本能的肯定，她知道那些极其富有的人已经不再是人类了。
It is only of life on Earth, however, that one can speak with any certainty. It seems to me that all life on Earth, the sum total of life upon the Earth, has purpose.
然而，只有关于地球上的生命，人们才能有把握地说出来。在我看来，地球上所有的生命，地球上所有生命的总和，都是有目的的。
You have to test your hypothesis against other theories. Certainty in the face of complex situations is very dangerous.
你必须用其他理论来检验你的假设。在复杂的情况下，确定性是非常危险的。
Dogmatism and skepticism are both, in a sense, absolute philosophies; one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is certainty, whether of knowledge or ignorance.
教条主义和怀疑主义在某种意义上都是绝对的哲学;一个肯定知道，另一个肯定不知道。哲学应该消散的是确定性，无论是知识还是无知。
Isn't it the moment of most profound doubt that gives birth to new certainties? Perhaps hopelessness is the very soil that nourishes human hope; perhaps one could never find sense in life without first experiencing its absurdity..
难道这不是产生新确定性的最深刻怀疑的时刻吗?也许绝望正是滋养人类希望的土壤;也许一个人如果不首先体验生活的荒谬性，就永远找不到生活的意义。
Don't be too harsh to these poems until they're typed. I always think typescript lends some sort of certainty: at least, if the things are bad then, they appear to be bad with conviction.
这些诗打好之前不要太苛刻。我总是认为打字稿提供了某种确定性:至少，如果事情是坏的，那么它们似乎是坏的信念。