The meaning of good and bad, of better and worse, is simply helping or hurting.

  • -- Ralph Waldo Emerson 拉尔夫·沃尔多·爱默生

好与坏,好与坏,只是简单的帮助或伤害。

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What makes it so plausible to assume that hypocrisy is the vice of vices is that integrity can indeed exist under the cover of all other vices except this one. Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.

认为伪善是罪恶的罪恶是如此合情合理的原因在于,除了这一种罪恶外,其他所有罪恶的背后都隐藏着正直。的确,只有犯罪和罪犯才使我们面对极端邪恶的困惑;但是只有伪君子才真正腐败到极点。

They cannot make it say what they want it to say. And this is the beginning and the end of the case for retaining the old language: If the churches give it up, who will remember how to say what is said?

他们不能让它说他们想说的话。这就是保持旧语言的开始和结束:如果教会放弃了它,谁会记得该怎么说呢?

We see things like reciprocity which are fairly central to our view of ethics. But if you're talking about a set of worked-out rules on what we are supposed to do then, yes, it is a human product.

我们看到像互惠这样的东西,这是我们道德观的核心。但如果你谈论的是一套关于我们应该做什么的规则,那么,是的,它是一种人类产品。

Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions, a crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit.

除去道德上的合理化和哲学上的自命不凡,犯罪是当权者选择禁止的任何行为。

Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil; for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it.

我现在看到,一般说来,讽刺是魔鬼的语言;因为这个原因,我早就干脆放弃了。

I went through withdrawal when I got out of graduate school. It's what you learn, what you think. That's all that counts.

我从研究生院毕业时经历了退学。这是你学到的,你想的。这才是最重要的。

I believe that ignorance is the root of all evil. And that no one knows the truth.

我相信无知是万恶之源。没有人知道真相。

But, you know, all good rock is easy.

但是,你知道,所有好的摇滚都很容易。