A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
哲学
Philosophy
Music is one of those things that is constantly going in my head all the time. It's sort of like the evolution and creation of doing food, or my philosophy about wine. It's always beating in my head, so it keeps the spirit moving.
音乐是我脑海中一直萦绕的东西之一。这有点像做食物的进化和创造，或者我对葡萄酒的哲学。它一直在我的脑海里跳动，所以它让我的精神继续前进。
But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.
但是，一些天才被嘲笑的事实并不意味着所有被嘲笑的人都是天才。他们嘲笑哥伦布，嘲笑富尔顿，嘲笑莱特兄弟。但他们也嘲笑小丑博佐。
Ideas improve. The meaning of words participates in the improvement. Plagiarism is necessary. Progress implies it. It embraces an author's phrase, makes use of his expressions, erases a false idea, and replaces it with the right idea.
改进的想法。词汇的意义也参与了这一过程。剽窃是必要的。进步意味着它。它包含作者的短语，利用他的表达，消除错误的想法，并用正确的想法取代它。
Like the winds that we come we know not whence and blow whither soever they list, the forces of society are derived from an obscure and distant origin. They arise before the date of philosophy, from the instincts, not the speculations of men.
社会的力量，就象我们不知道从哪里来的风，也不知道把它吹到什么地方去，不管它吹向什么地方一样，都是从一个遥远而不为人知的地方来的。它们产生于哲学出现之前，源于本能，而不是人类的思辨。
But love, like the sun that it is, sets afire and melts everything. what greed and privilege to build up over whole centuries the indignation of a pious spirit, with its natural following of oppressed souls, will cast down with a single shove.
但是爱，就像太阳一样，会燃烧并融化一切。多少个世纪以来，一个虔诚的灵魂，连同它的自然追随者，怀着怎样的贪婪和特权，怀着怎样的愤怒，将会被一推而下。
There is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else has a responsibility to give your life meaning and point… The truly adult view, by contrast, is that our life is as meaningful, as full and as wonderful as we choose to make it.
如果认为别人有责任赋予你生命的意义和观点，那就太幼稚了……相反，真正的成人观点是，我们的生活是有意义的，是充实的，是精彩的，就像我们自己选择的那样。
The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.
如果一个社会轻视优秀的管道工程，认为它是一项卑贱的活动，而容忍粗制滥造的哲学，因为它是一项崇高的活动，那么这个社会既没有好的管道工程，也没有好的哲学:它的管道和它的理论都站不住脚。
You are a child of the sun, you come from the sun, and that is something true with the Earth also... your relationship with the Earth is so deep, and the Earth is in you and this is something not very difficult, much less difficult then philosophy.
你是太阳的孩子，你来自太阳，地球也是如此……你们与地球的关系是如此之深，而地球就在你们之中，这不是一件非常困难的事情，远没有哲学那么困难。
To act with common sense according to the moment, is the best wisdom I know; and the best philosophy is to do one's duties, take the world as it comes, submit respectfully to one's lot; bless the goodness that has given us so much happiness with it,
我所知道的最好的智慧，就是根据当时的情况，用常识行事;最好的哲学是尽自己的责任，顺其自然，恭敬地服从自己的命运;上帝保佑赐予我们如此多幸福的善良，
In a situation where many national leaders do the same thing and look out for national interests, and with an issue like global warming, you're likely to get no solution, so I think you have to have some kind of ethical trump on some of those issues.
在很多国家领导人都在做同样的事情，为国家利益着想的情况下，在全球变暖这样的问题上，你很可能得不到解决方案，所以我认为你必须在这些问题上有某种道德上的特朗普。
I think philosophers can do things akin to theoretical scientists, in that, having read about empirical data, they too can think of what hypotheses and theories might account for that data. So there's a continuity between philosophy and science in that way.
我认为哲学家可以做一些类似于理论科学家的事情，在阅读了经验数据之后，他们也可以思考什么样的假设和理论可以解释这些数据。所以哲学和科学之间存在着连续性。
There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands.
直到哲学家们成为这个世界上的国王，或者直到我们现在所称的国王和统治者真正真正地成为哲学家，政治权力和哲学就这样落入同一个人的手中，国家或人类自身的麻烦才会结束。
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One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
一个人不是天生的，而是变成了一个女人。
I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.
我想，没有什么，甚至没有犯罪，比这种没完没了的工作更反对诗歌，更反对哲学，更反对生活本身了。
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。
Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.
你擅长的任何事都能带来快乐。
For whatever we lose (like a you or a me), It's always ourselves we find in the sea.
因为无论我们失去什么(像你或我)，我们总是在海里找到我们自己。