A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
哲学
Philosophy
Living well is an art that can be developed: a love of life and ability to take great pleasure from small offerings and assurance that the world owes you nothing and that every gift is exactly that, a gift.
生活得好是一门可以发展的艺术:热爱生活，能够从微小的奉献中获得巨大的快乐，确信这个世界不欠你任何东西，而每一件礼物都确实是一件礼物。
You may have been taught that the mind (the spirit, the brain) is a very difficult thing to know about. This is the first principle of Scientology: It is possible to know about the mind, the spirit and life.
你可能已经学过，意识(精神，大脑)是一个很难了解的东西。这是山达基教的首要原则:了解心灵、精神和生命是可能的。
For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible.
一个作家边写边写，就像他犯了相反的错误一样，应该受到谴责;因为这给他所说的话带来了一种迂腐的效果，同时也使他的话难以理解。
Felicity, the companion of content, is rather found in our own breasts than in the enjoyment of external things; and I firmly believe it requires but a little philosophy to make a man happy in whatever state he is.
与满足为伴的幸福，与其说是在享受外在的东西，不如说是在我们自己的胸中;我坚信，无论一个人处于何种状态，只要有一点哲学就能使他幸福。
A child who does not think about what happens around him and is content with living without wondering whether he lives honestly is like a man who lives from a scoundrel's work and is on the road to being a scoundrel.
一个孩子不去想他周围发生了什么，满足于他的生活而不去思考他是否诚实地生活，就像一个人从一个恶棍的工作中生活，并在成为一个恶棍的道路上。
The world does not speak. Only we do. The world can, once we have programmed ourselves with a language, cause us to hold beliefs. But it cannot propose a language for us to speak. Only other human beings can do that.
世界不说话。只有我们做的。一旦我们用一种语言给自己编程，这个世界就能让我们持有信念。但它不能为我们提供一种语言。只有其他人类才能做到这一点。
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。
I had some hesitations about philosophy because, if you worked out a philosophical theory, it was hard to know whether you were going to be able to prove it or whether other theories had just as good a claim on belief.
我对哲学有些犹豫，因为，如果你提出一个哲学理论，你很难知道你是否能够证明它，或者其他理论是否有同样好的信仰主张。
The spirit is the cause of all our thoughts and body action, and everything, but it is untouched by good or evil, pleasure or pain, heat of cold, and all the dualism of nature, although it lends its light to everything.
精神是我们所有思想、身体行为和一切事物的原因，但它不受善恶、快乐或痛苦、冷热和所有自然二元论的影响，尽管它给万物带来光明。
The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it’s indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it’s indifference. and the opposite of life is not death, it’s indifference.
爱的反面不是恨，而是冷漠。艺术的对立面不是丑陋，而是冷漠。信仰的对立面不是异端邪说，而是冷漠。生命的对立面不是死亡，而是冷漠。
When you're in the muck you can only see muck. If you somehow manage to float above it, you still see the muck but you see it from a different perspective. And you see other things too. That's the consolation of philosophy.
当你在粪堆里时，你只能看到粪堆。如果你设法浮在上面，你仍然能看到淤泥，但你从不同的角度看它。你还能看到其他东西。这就是哲学的慰藉。
There is nothing more natural than to consider everything as starting from oneself, chosen as the center of the world; one finds oneself thus capable of condemning the world without even wanting to hear its deceitful chatter.
没有什么比把每件事都从自己出发，选择为世界的中心更自然的了;一个人发现自己可以这样谴责这个世界，而不需要听它那骗人的喋喋不休。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
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。
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。
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。
The real secret of success is enthusiasm.
成功的真正秘诀是热情。
Art is long, and Time is fleeting.
艺术是永恒的，时间是短暂的。
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。