A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
真理
Truth
The truth is ugly: we have art so as not to perish from the truth.
真理是丑恶的:我们有艺术是为了不从真理中灭亡。
The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.
最伟大的真理是最简单的,最伟大的人也是最简单的。
A caricature is putting the face of a joke on the body of a truth.
讽刺漫画是把笑话的脸放在真理的身体上。
And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in a masquerade.
毕竟,什么是谎言?这不过是假面舞会里的事实。
Secrets bind and separate in strict accordance with who's in them.
秘密的约束和分离严格按照谁在里面。
Money is not real. It is a conscious agreement on measuring value.
钱不是真的。这是一种有意识的价值衡量协议。
A good story is always more dazzling than a broken piece of truth.
一个好的故事总是比破碎的真相更令人眼花缭乱。
The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.
真相会让你自由,但首先它会让你痛苦。
A lie to the faithless is merely a conversation in their language.
对不信的人说谎,不过是他们的言语。
Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.
机会是一个没有意义的词;没有原因就没有存在。
What you don't know can't hurt you; so not knowing you's a virtue.
你不知道的不会伤害你;所以不认识你是一种美德。
I see there’s truth in no man, nor obedience But for his own ends.
我看任何人身上都没有真理,也没有顺从,只有为自己的目的。
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Nothing is more futile than theorizing about music. No doubt there are laws, mathematically strict laws, but these laws are not music; they are only its conditions... The essence of music is revelation.
没有什么比把音乐理论化更无用的了。毫无疑问,存在着严格的数学定律,但这些定律不是音乐;它们只是它的条件……音乐的本质是启示。
This means that no single logic is strong enough to support the total construction of human knowledge.
这意味着没有一种逻辑强大到足以支撑人类知识的全部建构。
Truth comes to us mediated by human love.
真理以人类的爱为中介来到我们身边。
If we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem.
如果我们能真正理解问题,答案就会出来,因为答案和问题并不是分开的。
The worst lies in life are the ones we tell ourselves.
生活中最糟糕的谎言是我们对自己说的。
Technology gives us power, but it does not and cannot tell us how to use that power. Thanks to technology, we can instantly communicate across the world, but it still doesn't help us know what to say.
技术给了我们力量,但它没有也不能告诉我们如何使用这种力量。多亏了科技,我们可以在世界各地即时交流,但它仍然不能帮助我们知道该说什么。