At the heart of every faith system is a bargain: on one side there is the comfort that comes from a narrative that suggests human life has cosmic significance, and on the other a duty to yield to moral commands that can, in the moment, seem rather inconvenient.

  • -- Gary Hamel 哈默尔

每一种信仰体系的核心都是一笔交易:一方面,从一段说明人类生活具有宇宙意义的叙述中获得的慰藉,另一方面,人们有责任服从道德命令,而在目前看来,道德命令可能相当不方便。

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It's too hard to present an opinion on something that's not true to who you are. It's much easier to base opinions and debates off of fact and your true heart on things. To me that just comes quite naturally, and it's also about being open to what the debate is about and hearing the other side.

对不真实的自己发表意见太难了。把你的观点和辩论建立在事实的基础上,把你的真心建立在事情的基础上,要容易得多。对我来说,这是很自然的,这也是关于开放的辩论是关于什么和听取对方的意见。

On a cosmic scale, our life is insignificant, yet this brief period when we appear in the world is the time in which all meaningful questions arise.

在宇宙的尺度上,我们的生命是微不足道的,然而当我们出现在这个世界上的短暂时期,所有有意义的问题都产生了。

In art, scandal is a false narrative, a smoke screen that camouflages rather than reveals. When we don't know what we're seeing, we overreact.

在艺术中,丑闻是一种虚假的叙述,是一种伪装而非揭露的烟幕。当我们不知道自己在看什么时,我们会反应过度。

An epic is not made by piecing together a set of heroic lays, adjusting their discrepancies and making them into a continuous narrative.

史诗不是把一系列的英雄故事拼凑在一起,调整它们之间的差异,并把它们变成一个连续的故事。

Artists should always think of themselves as cosmic instruments for storytelling.

艺术家应该把自己看作是讲故事的宇宙工具。

What is nearest the heart is nearest the mouth.

心离嘴最近,心离嘴最近。