A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
哲学
Philosophy
Anyone wishing to hold office will be disqualified from being a candidate based on his desire to hold office.
任何希望任职的人将因其任职的愿望而被取消候选人资格。
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。
Be the kind of person who catches the shit before it hits the fan, not the one who scrapes it off afterwards.
做那种在狗屎砸到电风扇前就把它接住的人，而不是那种事后把它刮下来的人。
Sometimes you have to put yourself in other people’s shoes to really understand the hardships of their souls.
有时候，你必须设身处地为别人着想，才能真正理解他们心灵的痛苦。
Intuition does not in itself amount to knowledge, yet cannot be disregarded by philosophers and psychologists.
直觉本身并不等于知识，但哲学家和心理学家不能忽视它。
A false-statement requires deceit and distortion for someone to buy it, but a truthful-statement sells itself.
虚假陈述需要欺骗和歪曲才能被人买到，而真实陈述却能出卖自己。
Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity.
意见改变，举止改变，信仰起起落落，但是道德律法却写在永恒的石板上。
In philosophy, it is not the attainment of the goal that matters, it is the things that are met along the way.
在哲学中，重要的不是目标的实现，而是沿途遇到的事情。
My philosophy about the game, for instance, is that you have players out there who really do different things.
例如，我对游戏的理念是，你的玩家会做不同的事情。
In the battle that is philosophy all the techniques of war, including looting and camouflage, are permissible.
在哲学的战斗中，所有的战争技巧，包括抢劫和伪装，都是允许的。
When you use your energy and resources to punish people, you run out of energy and resources to protect people.
当你用你的精力和资源去惩罚别人的时候，你就用完了保护别人的精力和资源。
To live is to change, to acquire the words of a story, and that is the only celebration we mortals really know.
生活就是改变，去获得故事的语言，这是我们凡人真正知道的唯一的庆祝。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
All the world old is queer save thee and me, and even thou art a little queer.
除了你和我，整个世界都是古怪的，连你也有点古怪。
I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.
我想，没有什么，甚至没有犯罪，比这种没完没了的工作更反对诗歌，更反对哲学，更反对生活本身了。
One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
一个人不是天生的，而是变成了一个女人。
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。
The aim of art is not to represent the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
艺术的目的不在于表现事物的外表，而在于表现事物的内在意义。
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。