Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously.

  • -- Iris Murdoch 默多克

人的事情并不严重,但必须认真对待。

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It is in the admission of ignorance and the admission of uncertainty that there is a hope for the continuous motion of human beings in some direction that doesn't get confined, permanently blocked, as it has so many times before in various periods in the history of man.

正是在承认无知和承认不确定性的过程中,人类才有希望朝着某个方向不断地运动,而不是像人类历史上的不同时期那样,被限制,被永久地阻挡。

After that I could never pass a dead man without stopping to gaze on his face, stripped by death of that earthly patina which masks the living soul. And I would ask, who were you? Where was your home? Who is mourning for you now?

从那以后,我每经过一个死人,总要停下来看看他的脸,他的脸已被死亡剥去了掩盖活人灵魂的世俗的古铜色。我会问,你是谁?你的家在哪里?现在谁在为你哀悼?

Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.

当一个人的灵魂放弃复仇,敢于宽恕别人所受的伤害时,它才显得如此坚强。

I find we are growing serious, and then we are in great danger of being dull.

我发现我们变得严肃起来,然后我们就有变得迟钝的巨大危险。