A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
哲学
Philosophy
Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don't fight them. Just find a new way to stand.
挑战是迫使我们寻找新的重心的礼物。别打架。只要找到一种新的站立方式。
I take no pride in hopeless longing; I wouldn't hold a stillborn aspiration. I'd want to have it, to make it, to live it.
我不以无望的渴望为荣;我不会抱着一个胎死腹中的愿望。我想拥有它，去创造它，去生活。
One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, and compassion.
一个人的生命是有价值的，只要他通过爱、友谊和同情把价值归于他人的生命。
Sometimes I lie awake at night and ask why me? Then a voice answers nothing personal, your name just happened to come up.
有时我躺在床上彻夜难眠，问自己为什么?然后一个声音没有回答任何私人问题，你的名字碰巧出现了。
Absurdity is one of the most human things about us: A manifestation of our most advanced and interesting characteristics.
荒谬是我们身上最人性化的东西之一:它体现了我们最先进、最有趣的特点。
Do not ever say that the desire to "do good" by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives.
永远不要说用武力“做好事”的愿望是一个好的动机。权力欲和愚蠢都不是好的动机。
When you choose one way out of many, all the ways you don't take are snuffed out like candles, as if they'd never existed.
当你从众多方法中选择一种时，所有你不选择的方法都像蜡烛一样熄灭了，仿佛它们从未存在过。
Part of the maturity of the sciences is an appreciation of which questions are best left to other disciplinary approaches.
科学成熟的部分原因是对哪些问题最好留给其他学科方法来解决。
All great things must first wear terrifying and monstrous masks, in order to inscribe themselves on the hearts of humanity.
所有伟大的事物都必须首先戴上可怕的面具，以便把自己铭刻在人类的心中。
In the end, we must all individually take collective responsibility for both the good and the bad that exist in this world.
最后，我们都必须为这个世界上存在的善和恶单独承担集体责任。
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。
Life is the greatest of all mysteries, and though I seek to solve its many riddles, my deepest fear is that I will succeed.
生活是所有谜团中最大的一个，尽管我试图解开它的许多谜团，但我最深的恐惧是我会成功。
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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。
We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.
我们必须敢于做我们自己，不管这个自我是多么可怕或奇怪。
There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.
没有什么比在痛苦的时候回想起幸福更大的悲伤了。
Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.
听过的旋律是甜美的，但听不到的更甜美。
If the moment is everything, then everything is time.
如果那一刻就是一切，那么一切就是时间。
When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you.
当你满足于做简单的自己，不攀比或竞争，每个人都会尊重你。