A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
哲学
Philosophy
We've got to make change our national pastime and hold protests more regularly than weekend parties.
我们必须改变我们的国民消遣方式,比周末聚会更经常地举行抗议活动。
I always make sure that the world will prove me right. It gives me the freedom to contradict myself.
我总是确保这个世界会证明我是对的。它给了我反驳自己的自由。
Philosophizing is simply one way of being afraid, a cowardly pretense that doesn't get you anywhere.
哲学只是恐惧的一种方式,一种不会让你有任何收获的懦弱的伪装。
The philosophy of the wisest man that ever existed, is mainly derived from the act of introspection.
有史以来最聪明的人的哲学,主要来自于反省的行为。
With the truth, all given facts harmonize; but with what is false, the truth soon hits a wrong note.
与真理相协调,所有给定的事实;但对于虚假的东西,真相很快就会击中一个错误的音符。
What is forgotten, however, is that many times the Good we create leads to Evil that will destroy us.
然而,我们忘记的是,很多时候我们创造的善会导致毁灭我们的邪恶。
I was within and without. Simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.
我在里面,也在外面。同时被无穷无尽的生命的多样性所吸引和排斥。
When humankind cannot produce a philosopher to speak its mind, it longs for a poet to sing its heart.
当人类无法产生一位哲学家来表达自己的思想时,就会渴望一位诗人来歌唱自己的心灵。
Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket.
每一项伟大的事业都是从一场运动开始,变成一项事业,最终堕落为一场喧闹。
We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.
我们现在已经深入到这样一种境界:重述显而易见的东西是聪明人的首要职责。
The good men of every age are those who go to the roots of the old thoughts and bear fruit with them.
每一个时代的好人都是那些追根溯源并结出果实的人。
Let animals live like animals; let humans live like humans. That's my whole philosophy in a sentence.
让动物像动物一样生活;让人类像人类一样生活。这就是我的人生哲学。
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Loyalty to a petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.
对僵化的观点的忠诚从来没有打破过枷锁,也从来没有解放过一个人的灵魂。
Art is long, and Time is fleeting.
艺术是永恒的,时间是短暂的。
If anything is worth doing, it is worth doing it badly.
如果有什么事值得做,就把它做得不好。
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。
Living well is an art that can be developed: a love of life and ability to take great pleasure from small offerings and assurance that the world owes you nothing and that every gift is exactly that, a gift.
生活得好是一门可以发展的艺术:热爱生活,能够从微小的奉献中获得巨大的快乐,确信这个世界不欠你任何东西,而每一件礼物都确实是一件礼物。
The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas.
有一个好主意的最好方法就是有很多的主意。