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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Every philosophical problem, when it is subjected to the necessary analysis and justification, is found either to be not really philosophical at all, or else to be, in the sense in which we are using the word, logical.
每一个哲学问题,当它经过必要的分析和论证时,就会发现,要么不是真正的哲学问题,要么就是我们所说的逻辑问题。
It was also Hegel who established the view that the different philosophic systems that we find in history are to be comprehended in terms of development and that they are generally one-sided because they owe their origins to a reaction against what has gone before.
黑格尔也建立了这样一种观点,即我们在历史上发现的不同的哲学体系必须从发展的角度来理解,而这些体系通常是片面的,因为它们的起源是对过去的事物的一种反应。
When I was very young I was sort of floored by the fact that my mother and my father and everyone I knew was going to die one day, and myself too. I had a sort of a philosophical crisis. I couldn't believe that we were mortal.
当我很小的时候,我的父母和我认识的每一个人都有一天会死去,我自己也一样,这让我有点震惊。我有一种哲学上的危机。我不敢相信我们会死。
Testimony should be a philosophical problem and not limited to legal or historical contexts where it refers to the account of a witness who reports what he has seen.
证词应该是一个哲学问题,而不应局限于法律或历史背景,在法律或历史背景下,它指的是目击者报告他所看到的。
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。
Is it philosophical, is it quite allowable, to assume without evidence from fossil plants that the family or any of the genera was once larger and wide spread? and occupied a continuous area?
在没有化石植物证据的情况下,假定植物科或任何属曾经是更大、分布更广的,这是合乎哲学的吗?占据了一个连续的区域?