The existence of any evil anywhere at any time absolutely ruins a total optimism.

  • -- George Santayana 乔治·桑塔亚纳

任何邪恶的存在,无论何时何地,都绝对破坏了一种完全的乐观主义。

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We have spoken of beings so low in the scale that the individuals throughout their whole existence are not sufficiently specialized to be distinctively plant or animal: yet these are definite life in simpler shape.

我们曾说过,生命的规模是如此之小,以致于个体在其整个存在过程中还没有足够的专门化到足以成为独特的植物或动物;然而,这些都是更简单形式的确定的生命。

Under the ominous shadow which the second World War and its attendant circumstances have cast on the world, peace has become as essential to civilized existence as the air we breathe is to life itself.

在第二次世界大战及其所伴随的情况给世界带来的不祥阴影下,和平已成为文明生存的必要条件,正如我们呼吸的空气对生命本身一样。

Reason is like an open secret that can become known to anyone at any time; it is the quiet space into which everyone can enter through his own thought.

理性就像一个公开的秘密,任何人在任何时候都可以知道;它是一个安静的空间,每个人都可以通过自己的思想进入其中。

Life is neither a good nor an evil: it is a field for good and evil.

生活既不是善也不是恶:它是一个善恶并存的领域。

You don't even have to hate to have a perfectly miserable time.

你甚至不必讨厌过一段完全痛苦的时光。

An evil eye can see no good.

恶眼不能见善。