A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
哲学
Philosophy
We are here and it is now. The way I see it is, after that, everything tends towards guesswork.
我们在这里,现在就是。在我看来,在那之后,一切都倾向于猜测。
In every tool we create, an idea is embedded that goes beyond the function of the thing itself.
在我们创造的每一个工具中,都嵌入了一种超越事物本身功能的思想。
When you recklessly mine the depths of your imagination, universal truths are freed to surface.
当你不顾一切地挖掘你的想象力深处时,宇宙真理就会浮出水面。
Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
形而上学是一片没有海岸和灯塔的黑暗海洋,散布着许多哲学的残骸。
Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
我们觉得美是一种无法形容的东西;它是什么或它意味着什么永远不能说。
Wise men speak when they have something to say, fools speak because they have to say something.
智者在有话要说时才说话,愚者说话是因为他们不得不说。
As long as we don't cut off our hearts, the inner workings of the universe illuminate before us.
只要我们不切断自己的心,宇宙的内在运作就会照亮我们。
To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.
生存就是改变,改变就是成熟,成熟就是不断地创造自己。
Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I’ve said before, bugs in amber.
慢慢来,你会发现,正如我之前所说,我们都是琥珀中的虫子。
If you couldn’t find the answer in your past then, perhaps, you could sort it out in the future.
如果你不能在过去找到答案,那么,也许,你可以在未来解决它。
To be prepared against surprise is to be trained. To be prepared for surprise is to be educated.
对意外做好准备是经过训练的。准备好迎接惊喜就是接受教育。
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.
我想写一首最美的诗,但那是不可能的;世界已经书写了自己。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
All condemnation of others really condemns ourselves.
所有对他人的谴责都是对我们自己的谴责。
A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
傻瓜的头脑把哲学理解成愚蠢,把科学理解成迷信,把艺术理解成迂腐。因此大学教育。
It isn’t what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing, that makes you happy or unhappy. It’s what you think about.
让你快乐或不快乐的,不是你拥有什么,不是你是谁,不是你在哪里,不是你在做什么。这是你的想法。
Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law.
只有按照那句格言行事,你才能同时希望它成为一条普遍的法则。
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
明白事理的人使自己适应世界;不讲道理的人坚持要使世界适应他自己。因此,所有的进步都取决于不讲道理的人。