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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So what is discord at one level of your being is harmony at another level.
所以,在你们存在的某一层面上的不和谐,就是在另一层面上的和谐。
The most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to him, burglars and bigamists are essentially moral men.
现在最危险的罪犯是完全无法无天的现代哲学家。与他相比,窃贼和重婚者本质上是道德高尚的人。
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。
If wisdom is measured by the size of the beard then the goat is a philosopher king.
如果智慧是用胡子的大小来衡量的,那么山羊就是哲学家国王。
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。