A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
哲学
Philosophy
If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.
如果你把你的秘密告诉了风，你不应该责怪风把它们告诉了树。
Be your own master, and look at things as a man, as a human being, as a citizen, as a mortal creature.
做你自己的主人，以一个人、一个人、一个公民、一个凡人的眼光来看待事物。
I never found beauty in longing for the impossible and never found the possible to be beyond my reach.
我从来没有在对不可能的渴望中发现美，也从来没有发现我无法企及的可能。
The essence of independence has been to think and act according to standards from within, not without.
独立的本质是从内部而不是外部的标准来思考和行动。
Thank heaven for people who are satisfied with facts that conform to the reality they wish to believe.
感谢上帝，让人们对符合他们希望相信的现实的事实感到满意。
If you cannot be a sun that illuminates the light, be a moon that never tires of reflecting the light.
如果你不能成为照亮阳光的太阳，那就做一个永不厌倦反射阳光的月亮。
All sciences are vain and full of errors that are not born of experience, the mother of all knowledge.
所有的科学都是徒劳的，充满了错误，这些错误并非来自经验，而是所有知识之母。
It is of the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it.
欲望的本质是不满足的，大多数人只是为了欲望的满足而生活。
Truth is not as pompous and romantic as myth ... but it has the immeasurable value of being the Truth.
真相不像神话那么浮夸和浪漫……但它具有成为真理的不可估量的价值。
Molecules dissolve and pass away, but consciousness survives the death of the matter on which it rides.
分子会溶解并消失，但是意识在它所依赖的物质死亡后仍然存在。
Snow floated down every once in a while, but it was frail snow, like a memory fading into the distance.
雪偶尔飘下来，但它是脆弱的雪，像一个记忆消失在远方。
A cold atheistical materialism is the tendency of the so-called material philosophy of the present day.
一种冷漠的无神论唯物主义是当今所谓物质哲学的倾向。
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It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
在这个世界上，跟随世俗的意见生活是很容易的;在孤独中，我们很容易活在自己的世界里;但伟大的人是那些在人群中保持绝对甜蜜的孤独的独立性的人。
When the Aggregates arise, decay and die, O bhikkhu, every moment you are born, decay, and die.
比丘啊，当聚集出现、腐烂和死亡时，每一刻你出生、腐烂和死亡。
History is Philosophy teaching by examples.
历史是哲学教学的实例。
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。
Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.
求你使我远离不哭的智慧，不笑的哲理，和不向儿女低头的大能。
Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.
你擅长的任何事都能带来快乐。