A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
人类
Human
Nothing gets a bigger laugh than when you refer to things like ethics or human rights.
当你提到道德或人权等问题时,没有什么比这更让人捧腹大笑的了。
The most momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.
人类生活中最重要的事情是赢得灵魂的善恶的艺术。
I know of no great men except those who have rendered great service to the human race.
我不知道有什么伟人,除了那些为人类作出过巨大贡献的人。
What you might see as depravity is, to me, just another aspect of the human condition.
在我看来,你可能认为堕落只是人类状况的另一个方面。
For anyone with half a brain they can see that this play is about the human condition.
对于任何有半个大脑的人来说,他们都能看出这部戏是关于人类状况的。
The differences between the sexes are the single most important fact of human society.
性别差异是人类社会最重要的事实。
If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.
如果你想展望未来,想象一下一只靴子永远踩在一个人的脸上。
Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.
笑是理性的特权之一,仅限于人类。
The human mind evolved to believe in the gods. It did not evolve to believe in biology.
人类的思想进化到相信诸神。它没有进化到相信生物学。
Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being.
维护他人的权利是人类最崇高、最美丽的目标。
Tolerance is giving to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself.
宽容是给予每一个人你为自己主张的每一项权利。
I was the shyest human ever invented, but I had a lion inside me that wouldn't shut up!
我是有史以来最害羞的人,但我的内心有一头狮子,它不会闭嘴!
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
I'm not the first person to have discovered evidence that consciousness exists beyond the body. Brief, wonderful glimpses of this realm are as old as human history.
我不是第一个发现意识存在于肉体之外的证据的人。对这一领域的短暂而奇妙的一瞥与人类历史一样古老。
Once upon a time there was a Queen who had a son so ugly and so misshapen that it was long disputed whether he had human form. A fairy who was at his birth said, however, that he would be very amiable for all that, since he would have uncommon good sense.
从前,有一位王后,她有一个非常丑、非常畸形的儿子。不过,他出生时的一位仙女说,尽管如此,他还是会非常和蔼可亲的,因为他有非常好的判断力。
People and squirrels are very different. Most people will not argue that. But I find that there is one situation in which they're very similar. And that is: when I am driving towards them in my car. Then they're kind of hard to tell apart - especially if the human is kind of hairy.
人和松鼠是非常不同的。大多数人不会这么认为。但我发现有一种情况它们非常相似。那就是:当我开着车向他们驶来的时候。然后它们就很难区分了——尤其是如果人类是多毛的。
I think it's unfair, but they have the right as fallible, screwed-up humans to be unfair; that's the human condition.
我认为这是不公平的,但是他们有权利像容易犯错的、被弄得一团糟的人类一样不公平;这是人类的状况。
Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.
艺术始于反抗——在反抗被克服的那一刻。没有一件人类杰作是不经过巨大劳动就能创造出来的。