A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
哲学家
Philosopher
Saints need sinners.
圣人所需要的罪人。
We are all special cases.
我们都是特例。
All thought is naught but a footnote to Plato.
所有的思想都不过是柏拉图的一个脚注。
Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know.
你知道，现实只是一个罗夏墨迹。
We turn toward God only to obtain the impossible.
我们转向神，只为了得到不可能的事。
The need to be right is the sign of a vulgar mind.
想做对的人是庸俗的标志。
It is not your paintings I like, it is your painting.
我喜欢的不是你的画，而是你的画。
Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.
人必须生活和创造。活到流泪的地步。
The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.
唯一真正的进步在于学会独自犯错。
Be a philosopher but, amid all your philosophy be still a man.
做一个哲学家，但是，在你所有的哲学中，还是要做一个人。
The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention.
自我不过是有意识注意的焦点。
A philosopher once said, 'Half of good philosophy is good grammar.'
一位哲学家曾经说过:“好的哲学有一半是好的语法。”
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One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has not already been said by one philosopher or another.
人们无法想象有什么事情是如此奇怪和难以置信，以至于没有一个或另一个哲学家说过。
A philosopher's house is always more tuneful than a disciplinarian.
哲学家的家总是比纪律严明的人更和谐。
How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.
真诚怎么会是友谊的条件呢?不惜一切代价追求真理是一种不惜一切代价的激情。
Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.
那些缺乏勇气的人总会找到一种哲学来证明它。
It is doubtless one of Aristotle's great services that he conceived so clearly the truth that literature is a thing that grows and has a history.
毫无疑问，亚里士多德的伟大贡献之一，就是他如此清晰地构想出这样一个真理，即文学是一种不断发展并具有历史的东西。
The reason we want to go on and on is because we live in an impoverished present.
我们想继续生活下去的原因是因为我们生活在一个贫穷的当下。