A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
人类
Human
Civilization, to be worthy of the name, must afford other methods of settling human differences than those of blood letting.
文明要名副其实,就必须提供解决人类分歧的其他方法,而不是放血的方法。
Human behavior in the midst of hardship caught my attention very early on, and my first stories were all pictures, no words.
人类在苦难中的行为很早就引起了我的注意,我最初的故事都是图画,没有文字。
War is a beastly business, it is true, but one proof we are human is our ability to learn, even from it, how better to exist.
战争是一件残忍的事情,这是事实,但我们是人类的一个证明是,我们有能力学习,甚至从战争中学习如何更好地生存。
Not in achievement, but in endurance, of the human soul, does it show its divine grandeur and its alliance with the infinite.
不是在成就上,而是在忍耐上,在人类灵魂上,它显示了它的神圣的伟大和它与无限的联盟。
A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.
人类的行为一旦开始,就会永远为伟大的事业而奋斗。我们的不死之身不在于我们是谁,而在于我们做了什么。
The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions.
相信有可能爆发一场短暂的决定性战争,似乎是人类最古老、最危险的幻想之一。
There's nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address book.
没有什么比一首未完成的歌曲更能让你意识到人类存在的即兴创作。或者一本旧通讯录。
The questions of philosophy proper are human desires and fears and aspirations - human emotions - taking an intellectual form.
哲学本身的问题是人类的欲望、恐惧和愿望——人类的情感——以一种理智的形式表现出来。
Listen, if there's one sure-fire rule that I have learned in this business, it's that I don't know anything about human nature.
听着,如果我在这个行业里学到了一个万无一失的准则,那就是我对人性一无所知。
The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago, had they happened to be within reach of predatory human hands.
如果太阳、月亮和星星恰好在人类掠夺者的手中,它们早就消失了。
You're just human so i understood your mistake but when you made the same mistake twice i understood that you were just an ass.
你只是个普通人,所以我理解你的错误,但当你犯了两次同样的错误时,我明白你只是个笨蛋。
I love theater. I love sitting in an audience and having the actors right there, playing out what it means to be a human being.
我喜欢戏剧。我喜欢坐在观众席上,让演员们就在那里,表演作为一个人意味着什么。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
The world does not speak. Only we do. The world can, once we have programmed ourselves with a language, cause us to hold beliefs. But it cannot propose a language for us to speak. Only other human beings can do that.
世界不说话。只有我们做的。一旦我们用一种语言给自己编程,这个世界就能让我们持有信念。但它不能为我们提供一种语言。只有其他人类才能做到这一点。
We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.
我们正处在人类历史的开端。我们努力解决问题并不是没有道理的。但在未来还有数万年。我们的责任是尽我们所能,学习我们所能,改进解决方案,并把它们传递下去。
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.
我相信每个人的心灵都能从对他人行善中获得快乐。
Fulfill - you can far more than fulfill - the brightest anticipations of those who, in the name of human freedom, and in the face of threats that have ripened into terrible realities since, fought that battle which placed you where you now stand.
那些以人类自由的名义,面对从那时起已发展成可怕现实的威胁,打了一场使你们站在今天这个位置上的战斗的人们,实现了他们最光明的期望。
To err is human; to forgive, divine.
人非圣贤,孰能无过;宽恕的,是神。
If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be 'meetings.'
如果你必须用一个词来说明人类没有实现、也永远不会实现其全部潜力的原因,那么这个词就是“会议”。