No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve.

  • -- Thomas Carlyle 托马斯·卡莱尔

任何铁链,或任何外力,都不能强迫一个人的灵魂去相信或不相信。

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I feel quite connected to the past, and my memory. Everything that I've ever done I can still relate to, and feel connected to it in a way. There's no part of my life that I look at and go, 'I don't recognize that person at all.'

我觉得自己与过去和记忆都有很深的联系。我所做过的每一件事,我都能与之产生共鸣,并在某种程度上感到与之相连。我的生活中没有任何一部分是我看着就说,‘我根本不认识那个人。’

What doesn't feel okay to me, what feels a little bit out of balance, is when you want to turn yourself into something else - when you want to be another person.

对我来说不太好,感觉有点失衡的是,当你想把自己变成另一个人的时候——当你想成为另一个人的时候。

The same contingencies of time and space that force a statesman or soldier to make decisions, impel the historian, though with less urgency, to make up his mind.

同样的时间和空间的偶发事件迫使政治家或士兵作出决定,促使历史学家作出决定,尽管不那么紧迫。

To recognize negativism as a force of creation is to give up the creative standpoint altogether.

承认否定主义是一种创造的力量,就等于完全放弃了创造的立场。

It's not what we believe that makes us happy but the act of believing. In anything.

让我们快乐的不是我们相信什么,而是相信的行为。在任何事情。

To live a normal life, you just have to believe nothing is normal.

要过正常的生活,你只需要相信没有什么是正常的。