The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.

  • -- Bertrand Russell 罗素

哲学的要点是从一些简单到不值得陈述的东西开始,以一些自相矛盾到没有人会相信的东西结束。

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All people are paradoxical. No one is easily reducible, so I like characters who have contradictory impulses or shades of ambiguity. It's fun, and it's fun because it's hard.

所有的人都是矛盾的。没有人是可以轻易还原的,所以我喜欢那些有矛盾冲动或模棱两可的角色。它很有趣,因为它很难。

I believe our only hope for the future is to adopt a new conception of human ecology, one in which we start to reconstitute our concept of the richness in human capacity

我认为,我们对未来的唯一希望是采用一种人类生态学的新概念,在这个概念中,我们开始重新构成我们对人类能力的丰富性的概念

Believe in human beings - not all are good, but deep down all can be. But that doesn't mean you need to hang around crappy people and try to turn them around.

相信人类——不是所有的人都是好人,但在内心深处,所有的人都可以是好人。但这并不意味着你需要和那些差劲的人混在一起,并试图扭转他们的颓势。

Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.

男人把友谊像足球一样踢来踢去,但它似乎不会破裂。女人把它当玻璃一样对待,它就会破碎。

It's really sad how one day i'll seem to have everything going right then the next day i'll lose everything so fast.

有一天我似乎事事顺心,但第二天我就会失去一切,真令人伤心。

I'm the kinda person, you gotta fight for everything you get. You gotta believe in yourself.

我是那种人,你必须为你所得到的一切而奋斗。你必须相信你自己。

He who cannot obey himself will be commanded. That is the nature of living creatures.

不能顺服自己的,就必蒙命令。这就是生物的本性。