A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
邪恶
Evil
Tolerating evil leads only to more evil. And when good people stand by and do nothing while wickedness reigns, their communities will be consumed.
容忍邪恶只会导致更多的邪恶。恶人掌权的时候,好人袖手旁观,袖手旁观,他们的团体就必灭亡。
A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.
一个人可能不仅因为他的行为,而且因为他的不作为而对他人造成伤害,在这两种情况下,他都要对他们的伤害负应有的责任。
Thus that which is the most awful of evils, death, is nothing to us, since when we exist there is no death, and when there is death we do not exist.
因此,最可怕的邪恶,死亡,对我们来说是什么都不是,因为当我们存在的时候没有死亡,当有死亡的时候我们不存在。
greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there.
最大的伪装不是为了隐藏我们内心的邪恶和丑陋,而是我们的空虚。最难隐藏的是那些不存在的东西。
We can only write well about our sins because it is too difficult to recall a virtuous act or even whether it was the result of good or evil motives.
我们只能把自己的罪恶写得很好,因为我们很难回忆起一件善行,甚至是善恶动机的结果。
Death? Why this fuss about death. Use your imagination, try to visualize a world without death! ... Death is the essential condition of life, not an evil.
死亡吗?为什么对死亡如此大惊小怪。运用你的想象力,试着想象一个没有死亡的世界!…死亡是生命的基本条件,而不是邪恶。
The evil inclination occasionally allows us to be tempted and not to fall, so that we may allow ourselves to be tempted even further and fall even deeper.
邪恶的倾向有时允许我们被试探而不堕落,因此我们可能允许自己被试探得更远,堕落得更深。
But goodness alone is never enough. A hard cold wisdom is required, too, for goodness to accomplish good. Goodness without wisdom invariably accomplishes evil.
但光有善良是不够的。善良要达到善的目的,也需要冷酷无情的智慧。没有智慧的善良必然会导致邪恶。
I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.
我相信,没有武装的真理和无条件的爱将在现实中决定一切。这就是为什么正义,暂时的失败,比邪恶的胜利更强大。
I don't believe in evil, I believe only in horror. In nature there is no evil, only an abundance of horror: the plagues and the blights and the ants and the maggots.
我不相信邪恶,我只相信恐怖。自然界中没有邪恶,只有无尽的恐惧:瘟疫、枯萎病、蚂蚁和蛆。
The real evil with which we have to contend is not the physical evil of the Famine, but the moral evil of the selfish, perverse and turbulent character of the people.
我们必须与之斗争的真正邪恶不是饥荒带来的物质上的邪恶,而是人民自私、乖谬和混乱性格所带来的道德上的邪恶。
To put it in a few words, the true malice of man appears only in the state and in the church, as institutions of gathering together, of recapitulation, of totalization.
简而言之,人的真正恶意只出现在国家和教会中,作为一种聚集、概括和总和的制度。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
It seems to me that those songs that have been any good, I have nothing much to do with the writing of them. The words have just crawled down my sleeve and come out on the page.
在我看来,那些曾经很好的歌曲,我与它们的创作没有多大关系。这些话刚刚从我的袖子里爬了出来。
Evil is easy, and has infinite forms.
恶是容易的,并且有无限的形式。
I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil.
我不相信上帝的神学谁奖励好,惩罚邪恶。
The meaning of good and bad, of better and worse, is simply helping or hurting.
好与坏,好与坏,只是简单的帮助或伤害。
He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.
再也不能停下来思考,再也不能立正肃然起敬的人,无异于死去;他的眼睛是闭着的。