A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
哲学
Philosophical
A good lie does not exist.
好的谎言是不存在的。
If the world were perfect, it wouldn't be.
如果世界是完美的，它就不会是完美的。
Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.
有时候一个人为不花钱得到的东西付出的代价最高。
Peace becomes a fantasy when egos are promoted and facts distorted.
当自我膨胀、事实扭曲时，和平就成了幻想。
The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive.
一个人的价值应该看他给予什么，而不是看他能得到什么。
He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.
再也不能停下来思考，再也不能立正肃然起敬的人，无异于死去;他的眼睛是闭着的。
Sometimes the hardest journeys are the ones that begin with little hope. But we need to take them anyway.
有时候最艰难的旅程是从希望渺茫开始的。但我们无论如何都要把它们拿走。
Many feel that writers are a dime a dozen, so the goal is to break through and make it to the value of a penny.
许多人觉得作家是一毛钱一打，所以我们的目标是突破并使它的价值一分钱。
Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count; everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted.
能数的不一定都算;有价值的东西不一定都有价值。
Our music has depth, and attempts philosophical thought and meaning with discussions of infinity, eternity and mortality.
我们的音乐有深度，并尝试哲学思想和意义的无限，永恒和死亡的讨论。
To the extent that philosophical positions both confuse us and close doors to further inquiry, they are likely to be wrong.
哲学立场既让我们困惑，又对进一步的探究关上了大门，从这个程度上说，它们很可能是错误的。
The philosophic spirit of inquiry may be traced to brute curiosity, and that to the habit of examining all things in search of food.
探究的哲学精神可以追溯到野蛮的好奇心，也可以追溯到探究一切事物以寻找食物的习惯。
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I got married because I fell in love with this woman. I had a baby with her because we wanted to have children. But that's not because of some philosophical ideal at all, no.
我结婚是因为我爱上了这个女人。我和她生了个孩子，因为我们想要孩子。但这并不是因为某种哲学理想，不是。
Lying is an attempt to bridge a gap, to connect our wishes and our fantasies, about who we wish we were, how we could be, with what we’re really like.
说谎是一种弥合鸿沟的尝试，连接我们的愿望和幻想，关于我们希望成为什么样的人，我们可以成为什么样的人，以及我们真实的样子。
Good and Bad is inside everybody. The difference is that the Good remember when they have also been bad and the Bad remember when they have only been good.
每个人的内心都有好坏之分。不同之处在于，好人记得他们也曾是坏人，而坏人只记得他们曾经是好人。
Philosophical theories or ideas, as points of view, instruments of criticism, may help us to gather up what might otherwise pass unregarded by us.
哲学理论或思想，作为观点和批评的工具，可以帮助我们收集那些可能被我们忽视的东西。
There is a class, moreover, by whom all these scientific theories, and more are held as ascertained facts, and as the basis of philosophical inferences which strike at the root of theistic beliefs.
此外，有一类人认为所有这些科学理论，以及更多的科学理论，都是确定的事实，都是哲学推论的基础，而哲学推论又触及有神论信仰的根源。
There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths.
一个人如果没有舒适的神话的帮助，就不能面对生活的危险，这人有一点软弱和可鄙。