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真理
Truth
You know, my faith is one that admits some doubt.
你知道，我的信仰是承认一些怀疑的。
Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.
规则不一定是神圣的，原则才是。
A man's true character comes out when he's drunk.
一个人喝醉了，他的真性情才会显露出来。
People are basically irritating. Myself included.
人们基本上是令人讨厌的。包括我自己。
It is not down in any map; true places never are.
它不在任何地图上;真正的地方从不存在。
The truth is helpless when up against perception.
真理在与知觉对抗时是无能为力的。
The truth is always simpler than you can imagine.
真相总是比你想象的要简单。
You're so easy to read but the book is boring me.
你很容易读，但是这本书让我很无聊。
The first step towards philosophy is incredulity.
走向哲学的第一步是怀疑。
If the end does not justify the means - what can?
如果目的不能证明手段是正当的，那还有什么能呢?
From children and drunks will you hear the truth.
从孩童和醉酒的人，你们要听真理。
I've always been suspicious of collective truths.
我一直对集体真理持怀疑态度。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
People think that because a novel's invented, it isn't true. Exactly the reverse is the case. Biography and memoirs can never be wholly true, since they cannot include every conceivable circumstance of what happened. The novel can do that.
人们认为因为小说是虚构的，所以它不是真的。恰恰相反。传记和回忆录永远不可能是完全真实的，因为它们不可能包含所发生事情的每一个可以想象的情况。小说可以做到这一点。
We need discernment in what we see and what we hear and what we believe.
我们需要明辨我们所见、所听、所信的。
The Study of philosophy is not that we may know what men have thought, but what the truth of things is.
哲学的研究不是要我们知道人们的思想，而是要知道事物的真理是什么。
Science is facts; just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts; but a pile of stones is not a house and a collection of facts is not necessarily science.
科学是事实;正如房子是石头做的一样，科学也是由事实组成的;但是一堆石头并不是一座房子，收集的事实也不一定是科学。
A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
谎言可以走遍半个世界，而真理却还在穿鞋。
Definition of a Statistician: A man who believes figures don't lie, but admits than under analysis some of them won't stand up either.
统计学家的定义:一个人相信数据不会说谎，但他承认，在分析中，有些数据也站不住脚。