Loyalty to a petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.

  • -- Mark Twain 马克·吐温

对僵化的观点的忠诚从来没有打破过枷锁,也从来没有解放过一个人的灵魂。

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The whole course of human history may depend on a change of heart in one solitary and even humble individual - for it is in the solitary mind and soul of the individual that the battle between good and evil is waged and ultimately won or lost.

人类历史的整个进程可能取决于一个孤独的、甚至是卑微的人改变心意- -因为正是在这个孤独的人的思想和灵魂中进行了正义与邪恶的斗争,并最终取得了胜利或失败。

One of the most powerful, and deeply spiritual, ways to work for social change is for us to take action in the present that embodies -- right now! -- the future vision that we seek

为社会变革而努力的最强大、最深刻的精神力量之一,就是让我们在当下采取行动,具体体现在——现在!——我们追求的未来愿景

Those who begin coercive elimination of dissent soon find themselves exterminating dissenters. Compulsory unification of opinion achieves only the unanimity of the graveyard.

那些开始强制消除异见者的人很快就会发现自己在消灭异见者。强制的意见统一只能达到墓地的一致。

I do not believe we can repair the basic fabric of society until people who are willing to work have work. Work organizes life. It gives structure and discipline to life.

我认为,在愿意工作的人有工作之前,我们无法修复社会的基本结构。工作组织的生活。它给生活带来结构和纪律。

A person cannot approach the divine by reaching beyond the human. To become human, is what this individual person, has been created for.

一个人不能通过超越人类来接近神。成为一个人,就是这个人被创造出来的目的。

Be a loner. That gives you time to wonder, to search for the truth. Have holy curiosity. Make your life worth living.

是一个孤独的人。这给了你时间去思考,去寻找真相。有神圣的好奇心。让你的生活有价值。

The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.

唯一能使生命成为可能的是永久的、无法忍受的不确定性;不知道接下来会发生什么。

When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?

什么时候,我们的良心会变得如此温柔,以至于我们会采取行动,阻止人类的苦难,而不是为之复仇?

You have no idea what a poor opinion I have of myself and how little I deserve it.

你不知道我对自己的评价有多差,我不配得到这么多。

Every revolutionary ends up either by becoming an oppressor or a heretic.

每个革命者最终不是成为压迫者就是成为异教徒。

Morality is always derivative. It stems from one's worldview.

道德总是衍生出来的。它源于一个人的世界观。

If you have always done it that way, it is probably wrong.

如果你总是这样做,那很可能是错误的。

The only way to make a man trustworthy, is to trust him.

让一个人值得信赖的唯一方法,就是信任他。

We are all something, but none of us are everything.

我们都是有价值的人,但没有一个人是万能的。

Hard to have faith and fear at the same time.

很难同时拥有信仰和恐惧。

Curiosity is the lust of the mind.

好奇心是心灵的欲望。