In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for "finding himself." If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence.

  • -- Thomas Merton 托马斯·默顿

归根到底,个人要对自己的生活负责,对“发现自己”负责。如果他坚持把自己的责任转移给别人,他就不能发现自己存在的意义。

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And yet the Nobel Prizes, in singling out individuals, have done a great deal of good in pointing up to the world as a whole and setting forth clearly goals for achievement.

然而,诺贝尔奖在挑选个人方面做了大量有益的工作,它把世界作为一个整体,并为实现目标设定了明确的目标。

You know, as you compose music, you're just off in your own world. You have no idea where reality is, so to have an idea of what people think is pretty hard.

你知道,当你作曲时,你只是在你自己的世界里。你不知道现实在哪里,所以了解人们的想法是相当困难的。

There's no end to the inventiveness of critics, I tell you. Because they can't write fiction, they put their impulse into their analysis of work.

我告诉你,批评家们的创造性永无止境。因为他们不会写小说,所以他们把自己的冲动投入到对工作的分析中。

I am like that guy on the 'Odd Couple,' and it is not the neat guy. I go into my room and find pieces of pizza under the laundry.

我就像“奇数对”里的那个家伙,而不是那个整洁的家伙。我走进房间,在洗衣房的下面发现了几块披萨。

To help all created things, that is the measure of all our responsibility; to be helped by all, that is the measure of our hope.

帮助所有被创造的事物,这是我们所有责任的衡量标准;得到所有人的帮助,这是衡量我们希望的尺度。

In the final analysis, all architecture reveals the application of human ingenuity to the satisfaction of human needs.

归根结底,所有的建筑都揭示了人类智慧在满足人类需求方面的应用。

Any person who is carrying a lot of sadness needs to be able to rest sometimes, and to put it down.

任何一个背负着太多悲伤的人,有时候都需要休息,并把它放下。

In the age of the individual's liquidation, the question of individuality must be raised anew.

在个人清算的时代,必须重新提出个性的问题。

Having been given that public trust, we have a responsibility to share with the public.

既然得到了公众的信任,我们就有责任与公众分享。

But once the person is selected, at that point that person is independent.

但是一旦这个人被选中,这个人就独立了。

My own parents were touchy-feely.

我自己的父母感情丰富。