We are so obsessed with doing that we have no time and no imagination left for being. As a result, men are valued not for what they are but for what they do or what they have - for their usefulness.

  • -- Thomas Merton 托马斯·默顿

我们是如此痴迷于做,我们没有时间和想象力留下。因此,人们看重的不是他们是什么样的人,而是他们所做的或所拥有的——以及他们的有用性。

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We, we - as I say, we go in and shake up other industries and I think, you know, we do it differently and I think that industries are not quite the same as a result of Virgin attacking the market.

就像我说的,我们进入并撼动其他行业,我认为,你知道,我们的做法不同,我认为,由于维珍进军市场,各个行业并不完全相同。

I think people who go out and tell you how much they're gonna change things are the people who end up being just another whatever. I'm never trying to change anything. That's not for me.

我认为那些走出去告诉你他们将会改变多少事情的人,最终会变成另一个人,不管怎样。我从来没想过要改变什么。那不适合我。

It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.

认为自己伟大而无良是大错特错的,我可以肯定地说,没有一个真正伟大的人同时不具有真正的美德。

Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further.

当然,所有的艺术都是一个人经历过危险的结果,经历过一种没有人能走得更远的经历。

When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.

当我听到音乐时,我不怕危险。我是无懈可击的。我没有看到敌人。我与最早的时代有关,与最近的时代有关。

Men are strong so long as they represent a strong idea they become powerless when they oppose it.

人是强大的,只要他们代表一个强大的想法,当他们反对它时,他们就会变得无能为力。

The sweetest two words are 'next time.' The sourest word is 'if.'

最甜蜜的两个词是“下次”。最酸的词是“如果”。

Nobody does good to men with impunity.

没有人能不受惩罚地对人行善。