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哲学
Philosophy
Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them.
理性是，也只应该是激情的奴隶，除了服务和服从激情之外，永远不能伪装成任何别的职务。
Historically, philosophy does not have an impressive track record of answering questions about natural world in a decisive manner.
从历史上看，哲学在回答有关自然世界的问题时，并没有一个令人印象深刻的决定性记录。
My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate -- that's my philosophy.
我给你的建议不是问为什么或去哪里，而是享受你盘子里的冰淇淋——这就是我的哲学。
The road ahead is long and there will be many setbacks. Success is not assured… but the price of failure has never been this high.
前面的路还很长，会有很多挫折。成功并不一定，但失败的代价从未如此之高。
The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.
对欧洲哲学传统最可靠的概括是，它由一系列柏拉图的脚注组成。
Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions, a crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit.
除去道德上的合理化和哲学上的自命不凡，犯罪是当权者选择禁止的任何行为。
Knowledge subverts love: in proportion as we penetrate our secrets, we come to loathe our kind, precisely because they resemble us.
知识会颠覆爱:当我们深入了解自己的秘密时，我们会越来越讨厌同类，恰恰是因为它们与我们相似。
He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.
虐待动物的人在与人交往时也变得冷酷无情。我们可以通过一个人对待动物的方式来判断他的内心。
To believe in nothing is as ridiculous as to believe in everything. Reason and factual evidence may convert a belief into knowledge.
什么都不相信和什么都相信一样荒谬。理性和事实证据可以把信仰变成知识。
We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy.
我们不是通过推理、演绎和数学在哲学中的应用来学习的，而是通过直接的交往和同情来学习的。
Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successfull personality and duplicate it.
永远做你自己，表达你自己，对自己有信心，不要出去寻找一个成功的人格并复制它。
Any species that exempts itself from the rules of competition ends up destroying the community in order to support its own expansion.
任何不受竞争规则约束的物种，最终都会为了支持自身的扩张而毁灭群落。
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History is Philosophy teaching by examples.
历史是哲学教学的实例。
To sum up the whole, we should say that the aim of the Platonic philosophy was to exalt man into a god.
总而言之，我们可以说柏拉图哲学的目的是把人提升为神。
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。
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。
Be kind for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
善待他人，因为你遇见的每个人都在经历艰难的斗争。
The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
对我来说，幻想的天赋比我吸收积极知识的天赋更重要。