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哲学
Philosophy
The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.
哲学的要点是从一些简单到不值得陈述的东西开始，以一些自相矛盾到没有人会相信的东西结束。
Great understanding is broad and unhurried; little understanding is cramped and busy. Great words are clear and limpid; little words are shrill and quarrelsome.
大知闲闲，小知间间。大言炎炎，小言詹詹。
My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose - somehow we win out.
我的人生哲学是，如果我们下定决心，我们将如何对待我们的生活，然后朝着这个目标努力，我们永远不会失败——无论如何，我们会赢。
Time (again, Time) like the soul, wears many faces, many bodies and climates and attitudes. The past is one face, the present a second and the future yet another.
时间(再一次，时间)像灵魂一样，有许多面孔、许多身体、许多气候和态度。过去是一张脸，现在是另一张脸，未来又是另一张脸。
I don’t know whether this world has a meaning that transcends it. But I know that I cannot know that meaning and that it is impossible for me just now to know it.
我不知道这个世界是否有超越它的意义。但是我知道我不能知道那是什么意思，我现在也不可能知道。
I believe that the imagination is the passport we create to take us into the real world. I believe the imagination is another phrase for what is most uniquely us.
我相信想象力是我们进入现实世界的通行证。我相信想象力是我们最独特的东西的另一种说法。
The philosophy of the school was quite simple - the bright boys specialised in Latin, the not so bright in science and the rest managed with geography or the like.
这所学校的办学理念很简单——聪明的孩子专攻拉丁语，不那么聪明的孩子学习科学，其余的孩子学习地理或类似的学科。
True philosophy must start from the most immediate and comprehensive fact of consciousness: 'I am life that wants to live, in the midst of life that wants to live.
真正的哲学必须从意识最直接、最全面的事实出发:“我是想要生活的生命，在想要生活的生命之中。”
The true function of philosophy is to educate us in the principles of reasoning and not to put an end to further reasoning by the introduction of fixed conclusions.
哲学的真正功能是教育我们推理的原则，而不是通过引入固定的结论来结束进一步的推理。
My philosophy was, if I just do good work, someone will like it enough to employ me. It never made me famous. And I'm way, way too old now, mate. That boat's sailed.
我的哲学是，如果我把工作做好，就会有人喜欢它，并雇用我。它从未让我出名。我现在太老了，伙计。船的航行。
I believe that nothing is more important to our ability to effectively address our present than understanding the lessons learned from those who have come before us.
我认为，对我们有效地处理我们现在的问题的能力来说，没有什么比理解前人的教训更重要的了。
As long as we are children, we have the ability to experience things around us--but then we grow used to the world. To grow up is to get drunk on sensory experience.
只要我们还是孩子，我们就有能力去体验周围的事情——但之后我们会逐渐习惯这个世界。长大就是在感官体验中酩酊大醉。
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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。
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。
Wise men speak when they have something to say, fools speak because they have to say something.
智者在有话要说时才说话，愚者说话是因为他们不得不说。
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。
Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.
如果不偏离常规，就不可能取得进展。