A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
幻想
Illusions
However, one cannot put a quart in a pint cup.
然而,一个人不能把一夸脱放在一品脱的杯子里。
It takes a lot to wound a man without illusions.
没有幻想的人是很难受伤害的。
Illusions of grandeur are not the same as visions of greatness.
伟大的幻想并不等同于伟大的幻想。
An era can be said to end when its basic illusions are exhausted.
可以说,当一个时代的基本幻想破灭时,这个时代就结束了。
It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.
我父亲是谁并不重要;重要的是我记得他是谁。
I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.
我能想到的最令人愉快的事莫过于追求快乐的生活。
To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.
对他的狗来说,每个人都是拿破仑;因此,狗一直很受欢迎。
It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it.
青春是一种幻觉,是那些失去青春的人的幻觉。
How disturbing it is that our illusions are often our most important beliefs.
令人不安的是,我们的幻觉往往是我们最重要的信念。
Take care, your worship, those things over there are not giants but windmills.
当心,大人,那边的东西不是巨人,而是风车。
A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it.
幻觉是事实,而不是错误;错误的是基于它的判断。
As an organizer I start from where the world is, as it is, not as I would like it to be.
作为一个组织者,我从世界的现状出发,而不是我想要的样子。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
He who desires to worship God must harbor no childish illusions about the matter but bravely renounce his liberty and humanity.
想要敬拜神的人,对这事不可抱幼稚的幻想,而要勇敢地放弃他的自由和人性。
The contemplation of things as they are, without substitution or imposture, without error or confusion, is in itself a nobler thing than a whole harvest of invention.
思考事物的本来面目,没有替代或欺骗,没有错误或困惑,其本身就比整个发明的收获更高贵。
It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.
沉湎于希望的幻想是很自然的。我们倾向于对那个海妖闭上眼睛,直到她引诱我们走向死亡。
Realizing this, I knew that the actual space of a room could be broken down and played with by planting illusions of real light (electric light) at crucial junctures in the room's composition.
意识到这一点,我知道房间的实际空间可以被打破,并通过在房间构成的关键节点植入真实光线(电光)的幻觉来玩。
Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.
当你的朋友要求你对他们诚实时,不要相信他们。他们真正想要的是保持对自己的好感。
There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream.
幻想的枕头就像暴风雪中的雪花一样多。我们从一个梦醒到另一个梦。