A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
真理
Truth
To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle.
为了钱而做任何事情都是真正的无所事事。
I like people who refuse to speak until they are ready to speak.
我喜欢那些不准备说话就不说话的人。
The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
人的本质是不追求完美。
Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.
不加思索地尊重权威是真理的最大敌人。
A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.
不惜一切代价追求真理是一种不惜一切代价的激情。
We live in an abstract world that created the physical universe.
我们生活在一个创造了物理宇宙的抽象世界里。
Love is not a mere impulse, it must contain truth, which is law.
爱情不是单纯的冲动,它必须包含真理,这就是法律。
I don't make people comfortable but that's what couches are for.
我不让人们感到舒服,但这就是沙发的作用。
It takes two to speak truth -- one to speak and another to hear.
说真话需要两个人——一个人说,另一个人听。
It’s easier to remember your lies if they’re close to the truth.
如果你的谎言接近事实,你就更容易记住它们。
It takes a person who is wide awake to make his dream come true.
只有完全清醒的人才能实现自己的梦想。
Silence always used to guide a truth that could never be denied.
沉默总是用来引导一个永远无法否认的真理。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
In all intellectual debates, both sides tend to be correct in what they affirm, and wrong in what they deny.
在所有的学术辩论中,双方都倾向于正确地肯定,错误地否认。
Human vocabulary is still not capable, and probably never will be, of knowing, recognizing, and communicating everything that can be humanly experienced and felt.
人类的词汇仍然没有能力,也许永远也不会有能力去了解、认识和交流人类所能经历和感觉到的一切。
Deception may give us what we want for the present, but it will always take it away in the end.
欺骗可能会给我们现在想要的东西,但最终它总会把它拿走。
A man who lies, thinking it is the truth, is an honest man, and a man who tells the truth, believing it to be a lie, is a liar.
一个人如果认为他说的是真话,他就是一个诚实的人;如果一个人说的是真话,他相信那是谎话,他就是一个说谎者。
To any artist, worthy of the name, all in nature is beautiful, because his eyes, fearlessly accepting all exterior truth, read there, as in an open book, all the inner truth.
对任何一位名副其实的艺术家来说,自然界的一切都是美丽的,因为他的眼睛,无畏地接受所有外在的真理,在那里,就像在一本打开的书里,阅读所有内在的真理。
Those who invalidate reason ought seriously to consider whether they argue against reason with or without reason.
那些否定理性的人应该认真考虑他们是否有理由或没有理由地反对理性。