A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
哲学
Philosophy
I shall look at you out of the corner of my eye, and you will say nothing. Words are the source of misunderstandings.
我要用眼角余光看着你,你什么也不说。言语是误会的根源。
I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.
我评估意志的力量是看它承受了多少阻力、痛苦和折磨,并知道如何利用它的优势。
Reality shifts occur when we are in a dreamy state of energized awareness in which we are clear about what we prefer.
当我们处于充满活力的意识的梦幻状态时,我们清楚自己喜欢什么,现实就会发生变化。
Philosophy of science without history of science is empty; history of science without philosophy of science is blind.
没有科学史的科学哲学是空洞的;没有科学哲学的科学史是盲目的。
Our uniqueness is what makes us common. It is the same fact that we are unique that we as individuals have in common.
我们的独特性使我们共同。同样的事实是,我们是独特的,我们作为个体有共同之处。
No single event can awaken within us a stranger whose existence we had never suspected. To live is to be slowly born.
没有一件事能在我们心中唤醒一个陌生人,我们从来没有怀疑过他的存在。生活就是慢慢地出生。
There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.
我们可能有时无力阻止不公正,但绝不能有任何时候不进行抗议。
A world without poetry and art would be too much like one without birds or flowers: bearable but a lot less enjoyable.
一个没有诗歌和艺术的世界,就像一个没有鸟儿和鲜花的世界:可以忍受,但要难得多。
Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident.
爱情本身就是被爱情烧尽后留下的东西,这既是一种艺术,也是一种幸运的意外。
When the writing is good, a book becomes a mirror. The reader will see an uncanny familiarity and respond accordingly.
当写作好的时候,一本书就变成了一面镜子。读者会看到一种不可思议的熟悉感,并做出相应的反应。
It is very important not to mistake hemlock for parsley, but to believe or not believe in God is not important at all.
不要把铁杉误认为欧芹是很重要的,但是信不信上帝一点也不重要。
There is something almost shocking in the notion of so chaste a function carrying this Kantian hurlyburly in her womb.
如此贞洁的行为几乎令人震惊,因为这个康德式的人物在她的子宫里是如此匆忙。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
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。
A man’s thoughts can change his entire life;Whatever you cannot perceive, you cannot receive.
一个人的思想可以改变他的一生;你不能感知的,你就不能接受。
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。
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。
God gives us not only the truth but also the ability to believe it; not only the new thing to see but also the new eye to see it with.
神不仅给我们真理,也给我们相信真理的能力;不仅要看新事物,而且要用新的眼光去看。