A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
人类
Human
The human tendency to regard little things as important has produced very many great things.
人类把小事看得很重要的倾向产生了很多伟大的事情。
Language is a form of human reason, which has its internal logic of which man knows nothing.
语言是人类理性的一种形式,它具有人类一无所知的内在逻辑。
Few are the giants of the soul who actually feel that the human race is their family circle.
很少有灵魂的巨人真正感到人类是他们的家庭圈子。
Maybe I am not very human - what I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house.
也许我不是一个很有人性的人——我想做的是在房子的一侧画上阳光。
The human crisis is always a crisis of understanding: what we genuinely understand we can do.
人类的危机总是一场理解的危机:我们真正理解的是我们能做什么。
Don't get a movie confused with real life. I'm a well-rounded human being like everyone else.
不要把电影和现实生活混为一谈。我和其他人一样是一个全面发展的人。
Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.
艺术是人类灵魂最后的狡猾,它宁愿做任何事也不愿面对神。
Nothing in human nature is so God-like as the disposition to do good to our fellow-creatures.
在人类的本性中,没有什么比向我们的同类行善的倾向更像上帝了。
Satisfying a savage instinct is incomparably more pleasurable than satisfying a civilized one.
满足野蛮的本能比满足文明的本能要快乐得多。
The eye of a human being is a microscope, which makes the world seem bigger than it really is.
人的眼睛是一架显微镜,它使世界看起来比实际上更大。
We are only human. Don’t be mad at yourself. Forgive yourself, forget the past and start over.
我们只是人类。别生自己的气。原谅自己,忘记过去,重新开始。
To be human is to keep rattling the bars of the cage of existence, hollering, 'What's it for?'
做一个人,就是不停地摇动着生存之笼的铁栏门,大声喊道:“这是干什么用的?”
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
In our judgment of human transactions, the law of optics is reversed; we see the most indistinctly the objects which are close around us.
在我们对人类交易的判断中,光学定律被颠倒了;我们最模糊地看到周围的物体。
To err is human; to forgive, divine.
人非圣贤,孰能无过;宽恕的,是神。
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。
If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.
大道废,有仁义;智慧出,有大伪;六亲不和,有孝慈;国家昏乱,有忠臣。
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 absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
一个人的身体对另一个特定的身体的绝对渴望及其对替代品的漠不关心是生命的主要奥秘之一。