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哲学
Philosophy
Maybe philosophy - I love talking about ideas. Or maybe art history. I was thinking about psychology, then I got really afraid because everybody says it's terribly boring.
也许是哲学——我喜欢谈论思想。或者艺术史。我在想心理学，然后我真的很害怕，因为每个人都说它非常无聊。
Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars - mere globs of gas atoms. I, too, can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more?
诗人说，科学剥夺了星星的美丽——仅仅是由气体原子组成的球体。我也能在沙漠之夜看到星星，感觉到它们。但我看到的是多还是少呢?
To teach how to live without certainty, and yet without, being paralyzed by hesitation, is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy in our age can do for those who study it.
教人们如何在没有确定性的情况下生活，同时又不被犹豫所麻痹，这也许是我们这个时代哲学能为那些研究哲学的人所做的主要事情。
Don't get involved in partial problems, but always take flight to where there is a free view over the whole single great problem, even if this view is still not a clear one.
不要卷入局部的问题，但总是要飞到对整个大问题有自由观点的地方，即使这个观点仍然不清晰。
As a scholar I am interested in the philosophy of language, semiotics, call it what you want, and one of the main features of the human language is the possibility of lying.
作为一个学者，我对语言哲学很感兴趣，符号学，随你怎么说，人类语言的主要特征之一就是撒谎的可能性。
Joy is the goal of existence, and joy is not to be stumbled upon, but to be achieved, and the act of treason is to let its vision drown in the swamp of the moment's torture.
快乐是存在的目标，快乐不是偶然发现的，而是要实现的，叛逆的行为是让它的幻想淹没在那一刻的折磨的沼泽中。
Devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality; there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking.
忠于真理是道德的标志;没有什么比一个勇于思考的人的行动更伟大、更高尚、更英勇的奉献精神了。
The heart is like a woman, and the head is like a man, and although man is the head of woman, woman is the heart of man, and she turns man's head because she turns his heart.
心像女人，头像男人，虽然男人是女人的头，但女人是男人的心，她能让男人回心转意是因为她能让他回心转意。
I am at war... with the principal personage of traditional philosophy, that abstract subject who masquerades as everyone and anyone, but is really a male subject in disguise.
我在打仗……以传统哲学的主要人物为代表，那个抽象的主体假扮成每个人和任何人，但实际上是一个伪装的男性主体。
If we look into ourselves we discover propensities which declare that our intellects have arisen from a lower form; could our minds be made visible we should find them tailed.
如果我们审视自己，我们就会发现一些倾向，这些倾向表明我们的智力来自于一种较低的形态;如果我们的思想被看得见，我们就会发现它们被尾随着。
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
明白事理的人使自己适应世界;不讲道理的人坚持要使世界适应他自己。因此，所有的进步都取决于不讲道理的人。
The philosophy of the common man is an old wife that gives him no pleasure, yet he cannot live without her, and resents any aspersions that strangers may cast on her character.
一个普通男人的哲学是，一个老婆子不能给他带来快乐，然而没有她他就不能生活，并且憎恨任何陌生人对她性格的诽谤。
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Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
没有内容的思想是空洞的，没有概念的直觉是盲目的。
Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.
智者说话是因为他们有话要说;傻瓜，因为他们不得不说些什么。
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。
Art is long, and Time is fleeting.
艺术是永恒的，时间是短暂的。
Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.
人不过是一根芦苇，是自然界中最脆弱的东西，但他却是一根会思考的芦苇。
History is Philosophy teaching by examples.
历史是哲学教学的实例。