A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
存在
Existence
Philosophy, most broadly viewed, is the critical survey of existence from the standpoint of value.
哲学，从最广泛的角度来看，是从价值的角度对存在的批判审视。
Most people have stereo vision, so why belittle that very, very important element of our existence?
大多数人都有立体视觉，那么为什么要轻视我们存在的这个非常非常重要的因素呢?
The individual who has to justify his existence by his own efforts is in eternal bondage to himself.
一个人如果要用自己的努力来证明自己的存在是正确的，那么他就永远是自己的奴隶。
The seminaries must be like the churches' poor relations, prolonging their existence with austerity.
神学院必须像教堂的穷亲戚一样，通过节俭来延长他们的存在。
No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.
没有人会选择一个没有朋友的生活，条件是拥有世界上所有其他的东西。
The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching has been in existence for most of this century.
卡内基促进教学发展基金会在本世纪的大部分时间里一直存在。
The simple fact of existence, of being aware that you are aware; this to me is the most astounding fact.
存在的简单事实，意识到你是有意识的;这对我来说是最令人震惊的事实。
I think it's wrong that so many people pass on from this existence, and take all their knowledge with them.
我认为这么多的人离开这个世界，带走他们所有的知识是错误的。
When you use words, you're able to keep your mind alive. Writing is my way of reaffirming my own existence.
当你使用语言的时候，你就能让你的思维保持活跃。写作是我重申自己存在的方式。
Self-control means wanting to be effective at some random point in the infinite radiations of my spiritual existence.
自我控制意味着想要在我精神存在的无限辐射的某个随机点上有效。
I don't need anyone to rectify my existence. The most profound relationship we will ever have is the one with ourselves.
我不需要任何人来纠正我的存在。我们所拥有的最深刻的关系就是与自己的关系。
Universities are the cathedrals of the modern age. They shouldn't have to justify their existence by utilitarian criteria.
大学是现代的大教堂。他们不应该用功利主义的标准来证明他们的存在。
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As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.
只要人不把自己的存在看成是理所当然的，而是把它看成一种深不可测的神秘的东西，思想就开始了。
My life at home is super simple. My local bar with my mates, cooking for my mother, making tables, planting vegetables: It's the classic idea of the artistic existence.
我在家里的生活超级简单。我和我的朋友在当地的酒吧，为我的母亲做饭，做桌子，种蔬菜:这是艺术存在的经典理念。
But when I was twelve years old I caught my first strong glimpse of one of the fundamental forces of existence, whose votary I was destined to be for life - namely, Beauty.
但当我十二岁的时候，我第一次强烈地看到了存在的基本力量之一，它是我注定要终生追随的——那就是美。
I called the New World into existence, to redress the balance of the Old.
我呼吁新世界的存在，以纠正旧世界的平衡。
No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country.
任何一个靠付给工人低于生活工资为生的企业都无权在这个国家继续存在。
Meditation is a surrender. It is not a demand. It is not forcing existence your way. It is relaxing into the way existence wants you to be. It is a let-go.
冥想是一种降服。这不是需求。它不是强迫你以你的方式存在。它是放松进入存在想要你成为的样子。这是一个放手。