Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting charity and devotion have lost their original nature.

  • -- Zhuangzi 庄子

那些试图用仪式和音乐来阻碍人类的思想,影响慈善和奉献来满足人类思想的人已经失去了他们的本性。

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The mind is a machine that is constantly asking: What would I prefer? Close your eyes, refuse to move, and watch what your mind does. What it does is become discontent with that-which-is. A desire arises, you satisfy that desire, and another arises in its place.

大脑就像一台机器,不停地在问:我更喜欢什么?闭上眼睛,拒绝移动,观察你的思想在做什么。它所做的就是对现状感到不满。一个欲望产生了,你满足了那个欲望,另一个欲望在它的地方产生了。

I am very shy. When I go to a charity ball, I don't mind if people look at my sleeves. I mind terribly if I have to say something.

我很害羞。当我去参加一个慈善舞会时,我不介意别人看我的袖子。我非常介意我必须说些什么。

Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.

贪婪是一个无底洞,使人精疲力竭,无休止地努力满足需要,却永远得不到满足。

It's a bad day when you don't get the work done that you need to get done or you don't get it done to the satisfaction.

如果你没有完成你需要完成的工作,或者你没有满意地完成工作,这是糟糕的一天。

Mankind had built a world that would take hundred years to die. A century for the last lights to go out.

人类已经建立了一个需要一百年才能灭亡的世界。最后一盏灯熄灭了一个世纪。

History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.

历史只不过是人类的罪恶、愚蠢和不幸的记录。

The natural cause of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism.

人类心灵的自然原因当然是从轻信到怀疑。

A liberal mind is a mind that is able to imagine itself believing anything.

自由的头脑是一种能够想象自己相信任何事情的头脑。