A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
人类
Human
If your faith is opposed to experience, to human learning and investigation, it is not worth the breath used in giving it expression.
如果你的信仰与经验相悖,与人类的学习和探索相悖,那么它就不值得你用呼吸来表达它。
The moment you have children and a mortgage you want things to work; you're locked into the human project and you want it to flourish.
一旦你有了孩子和抵押贷款,你就想让一切正常;你被困在人类项目中,你希望它蓬勃发展。
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。
The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
人生最大的甜头是友谊。把这提升到享受的最高境界,是一个很少有人发现的秘密。
The media could do a much better job, that's for sure, especially the media that targets women... Human rights? They couldn't care less!
媒体可以做得更好,这是肯定的,特别是针对女性的媒体……人权?他们一点也不在乎!
Whose rights will we acknowledge? Whose human dignity will we respect? For whose well-being will we, as a people, assume responsibility?
我们将承认谁的权利?我们将尊重谁的人格尊严?作为一个民族,我们将为谁的福祉承担责任?
Literature is the human activity that takes the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty.
文学是一种人类活动,它对多样性、可能性、复杂性和艰巨性进行了最全面、最精确的描述。
I am trying to show the world that we are all human beings and that color is not important. What is important is the quality of our work.
我想告诉世界,我们都是人,颜色并不重要。重要的是我们工作的质量。
The automobile is technologically more sophisticated than the bundling board, but the human motives in their uses are sometimes the same.
汽车在技术上比捆绑板更为复杂,但人们使用它们的动机有时是相同的。
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。
All myths that are something more than fancies gain rather than lose in value with time, by reason of the accretions of human experience.
所有神话都不仅仅是幻想,而是随着时间的推移,由于人类经验的积累而获得而不是失去价值。
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。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
Writing fiction has developed in me an abiding respect for the unknown in a human lifetime and a sense of where to look for the threads, how to follow, how to connect, find in the thick of the tangle what clear line persists.
写小说使我对人的一生中未知的东西产生了一种持久的敬意,让我有了一种去哪里寻找线索、如何追随、如何联系的感觉,在错综复杂的世界中找到一条清晰的线。
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。
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。
Art Is The Stored Honey Of The Human Soul.
艺术是人类灵魂中储存的蜂蜜。
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。
One cannot weep for the entire world, it is beyond human strength. One must choose.
一个人不能为整个世界哭泣,这超出了人类的力量。一个人必须选择。