A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
哲学
Philosophy
A scientist may not be sure of the answer, but he's often sure he can find one. And that's a condition which is clearly not enjoyed by philosophy.
科学家可能不确定答案，但他常常确信他能找到一个。这显然不是哲学所喜欢的。
Creation and destruction are the two ends of the same moment. And everything between the creation and the next destruction is the journey of life.
创造和毁灭是同一时刻的两端。在创造和下一次毁灭之间的一切都是生命的旅程。
The philosophy behind much advertising is based on the old observation that every man is really two men - the man he is and the man he wants to be.
许多广告背后的哲学是基于一个古老的观点，即每个人都是两个真正的男人——他是他自己，他想成为的人。
Love isn't always a physical emotion. Sometimes it's the ones who never got to actually hold you in their arms that appreciate you for who you are.
爱并不总是一种身体上的情感。有时候，只有那些从未真正拥抱过你的人才会欣赏真实的你。
I have always looked upon alchemy in natural philosophy to be like enthusiasm in divinity, and to have troubled the world much to the same purpose.
我总是把自然哲学中的炼金术看作是对神性的狂热，并为同样的目的使世界大为不安。
Young people everywhere have been allowed to choose between love and a garbage disposal unit. Everywhere they have chosen the garbage disposal unit.
世界各地的年轻人都被允许在爱情和垃圾处理场之间做出选择。到处都选择了垃圾处理单元。
Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.
每一天都是一个小生命:每一次醒来和起床都是一个小生命的诞生，每一个清新的早晨都是一个小青春，每一次休息和睡眠都是一个小死亡。
Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger, portion of truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.
经验已经表明，一个真正的哲学将永远表明，一个巨大的，也许更大的部分，真理来自于看似无关紧要的东西。
Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments.
适当的笑话，讲得恰当，比任何无聊的争论更能启发政治、哲学和文学问题。
After a dream like that, you're grateful that it was just a dream, that no matter how bad your actual life, it couldn't be worse than your dream life.
在做了那样的梦之后，你会感激这只是一个梦，无论你的现实生活有多糟糕，它都不会比你的梦想生活更糟。
Fathers like to have children good-natured, well-behaved, and comfortable, but how to put them in that desirable condition is out of their philosophy.
父亲们喜欢孩子们温文尔雅、彬彬有礼、舒舒服服，但如何把他们置于理想的状态是他们的哲学。
As if it harm’d me, giving others the same chances and rights as myself-as if it were not indispensable to my own rights that others possess the same.
好像它伤害了我，给别人和我一样的机会和权利——好像别人拥有和我一样的权利并不是我自己的权利所不可缺少的。
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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。
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。
The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
燃烧两倍光亮的火焰燃烧一半的时间。
A good practice carried to an extreme and worked in accordance with the letter of the law becomes a positive evil.
一个好的行为被带到一个极端，并按照法律的文字工作，成为一个积极的邪恶。
Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.
教育思想而不教育心灵，根本不是教育。