Humankind cannot bear very much reality.

  • -- T. S. Eliot T.S.艾略特

人类无法承受太多的现实。

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Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces.

幻觉把自己呈现在我们面前,因为它们能减轻我们的痛苦,让我们享受快乐。因此,我们必须毫无怨言地接受它,因为有时它们会与一些现实发生冲突,被撞得粉碎。

The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask.

最重要的自由是做真实的自己。你用现实换取了一个角色。你放弃了感觉的能力,作为交换,戴上面具。

In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.

在人类(以及动物)的漫长历史中,那些学会了最有效地合作和即兴发挥的人占了上风。

We must wake ourselves up! Or somebody else will take our place, and bear our cross, and thereby rob us of our crown.

我们必须把自己叫醒!不然,总有别人来代替我们,背起我们的十字架,夺去我们的冠冕。

The puritan hated bear baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.

清教徒憎恨熊的引诱,不是因为它给熊带来痛苦,而是因为它给观众带来快乐。

We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings.

我们不能对人性绝望,因为我们自己也是人。