Optimism: The doctrine, or belief, that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly, everything good, especially the bad, and everything right that is wrong.

  • -- Ambrose Bierce 比尔斯

乐观主义:认为一切都是美好的,包括丑陋的,一切都是好的,尤其是坏的,一切都是对的,一切都是错的学说或信仰。

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If you will call your troubles experiences, and remember that every experience develops some latent force within you, you will grow vigorous and happy, however adverse your circumstances may seem to be.

如果你把你的烦恼称为经历,并记住每一次经历都在你的内心发展出某种潜在的力量,你就会变得充满活力和快乐,不管你的环境看起来多么不利。

And what sort of philosophical doctrine is thi - that numbers confer unlimited rights, that they take from some persons all rights over themselves, and vest these rights in others.

这是一种什么样的哲学学说呢?那就是数字赋予人们无限的权利,他们从某些人那里夺走对自己的一切权利,并把这些权利授予其他人。

The great appeal of the doctrine that the mind is a blank slate is the simple mathematical fact that zero equals zero.

心灵是一块白板这一理论的最大吸引力在于一个简单的数学事实:零等于零。

A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it.

一个人可能在午餐前是悲观的决定论者,午餐后是对自由意志的乐观信仰者。