Every once in a while, something happens to you that makes you realise that the human race is not quite as bad as it so often seems to be.

  • -- Ian Hacking 伊恩·哈金

每隔一段时间,你身上就会发生一些事情,让你意识到人类并没有看上去那么糟糕。

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It is in the admission of ignorance and the admission of uncertainty that there is a hope for the continuous motion of human beings in some direction that doesn't get confined, permanently blocked, as it has so many times before in various periods in the history of man.

正是在承认无知和承认不确定性的过程中,人类才有希望朝着某个方向不断地运动,而不是像人类历史上的不同时期那样,被限制,被永久地阻挡。

This part of being a man, changing the way we parent, happens only when we want it to. It changes because we are determined for it to change; and the motive for changing often comes out of wanting to be the kind of parent we didn't have.

作为一个男人,改变我们为人父母的方式,只有在我们想要的时候才会发生。它的改变是因为我们决心让它改变;而改变的动机往往来自想成为我们没有的那种父母。

Of course the other and more serious way in which it all happens is that one finds in poems and language some quality one appropriates for oneself and wishes to reproduce.

当然,另一种更严肃的方式是,人们在诗歌和语言中发现了一些适合自己的特质,并希望复制。

When you put your total faith in God, no matter what happens, to a person who's a true believer, if you die, you know you're going to heaven to be with God.

当你完全相信上帝,不管发生什么,对一个真正的信徒,如果你死了,你知道你会去天堂和上帝在一起。

Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity.

记者对世界的不幸幸灾乐祸。正因为如此,他们常常在令其他人类失望的事件中获得一种不体面的快乐。

If you want something you've never had then you've got to do something you've never done.

如果你想要一些你从未拥有过的东西,那么你必须做一些你从未做过的事情。

You're only human. You don't have to have it together every minute of every day.

你只是人类。你不必每天每时每刻都在一起。

I don't shop because I need something, I just shop for shopping's sake.

我购物不是因为我需要什么,我只是为了购物而购物。