A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
真理
Truth
Revelations are never convenient, and always annoying.
揭露真相从来都不方便，而且总是令人烦恼。
Remembering lies is a full-time job, one best to quit.
记住谎言是一项全职工作，最好是辞职。
The truth is in the heart; Out there is true darkness.
真理在心中; 外面是真正的黑暗。
Philosopher: A lover of wisdom, which is to say, Truth.
哲学家:热爱智慧，也就是说，热爱真理。
In seeking truth you have to get both sides of a story.
为了寻求真理，你必须了解事情的两面。
Mostly, we authors repeat ourselves---that’s the truth.
大多数情况下，我们作者重复自己的话——这是事实。
Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
给我真理，而不是爱，不是金钱，不是名誉。
Everybody hates lie but nobody wants to hear the truth.
每个人都讨厌说谎，但没有人想听真话。
God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar.
断乎不是。神是真实的。人都是虚谎的。
Today, human civilization is drowning in a sea of lies.
今天，人类文明正淹没在谎言的海洋中。
God is willing to walk the earth again incarnate in us.
上帝愿意再次以我们的化身行走在地球上。
Fiction is a piece of truth that turns lies to meaning.
小说是把谎言变成意义的真理。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
Language can only deal meaningfully with a special, restricted segment of reality. The rest, and it is presumably the much larger part, is silence.
语言只能有意义地处理现实中一个特殊的、受限制的部分。剩下的，大概是更大的部分，是沉默。
Talking is like playing on the harp; there is as much in laying the hands on the strings to stop their vibration as in twanging them to bring out their music.
说话就像弹琴;把双手放在琴弦上以停止琴弦的振动，与拨弄琴弦以奏出音乐一样重要。
The true test of civilization is not the census, nor the size of cities, nor the crops – no, but the kind of man the country turns out.
对文明的真正考验不是人口普查，也不是城市的大小，也不是庄稼——不，而是这个国家造就了什么样的人。
We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?
我们从我们的花园中学习如何处理这个时代最紧迫的问题:多少才足够?
It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.
难怪事实比小说更离奇。小说必须有意义。