星期日, 3月 18, 2007

生命之歌 第一章 選擇自己的信念

生命之歌
第一章
選擇自己的信念

CHAPTER1 CHOOSING ONE'S BELIEFS

第一章
選擇自己的信念



The life which is unexamined is not worth living.

Plato(427-347 B.C)

沒有經過檢驗的生命是不值得活的.

柏拉圖(西元前427-347



Everything has been figured out except how to live.

Jean-Paul Sartre(1905-80)

除了如何活著,其他每一件事都被計算好了。


保羅
沙特
1905-80



All men should strive to learn before they die---what they are runniig from,and to,and why.

James Thurber(1894-1961)

在死亡來臨之前,所有人都應該努力學習----他們從哪裡來、到哪裡去、為什麼?

詹姆士
特柏
1894-1961



We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe. You cannot educated a man wholly out of the superstitious fears which were implanted in his imagination, no matter how utterly his reason may reject them.

Oliver Wendell Holmes,Sr.(1809-94)

從搖籃開始,我們就被烙上部落的圖騰。無論一個人理智上多麼的排斥,你都很難將深深種植在他想像中的迷信恐懼拿掉。

奧力佛
溫德耳
休姆
爵士(1809-94



We live in a world of many illusions and much of human belief and behavior is ritualized nonsense.

Wes "Scoop" Nisker

我們活在一個充滿幻象的世界,這個世界,人們的信仰和行為是儀式化的無聊。

魏斯 "獨家" 尼斯可




To a large degree 'reality' is whatever the people who are around at the time agree to.

Milton H. Miller

在相當程度,"事實" 是現在許多人同意的東西。


密爾敦
. 密勒



A great many people think they are thinking when the are rearranging their prejudices.

William James (1842-1910)

許多人認為他們在思考,其實,他們只是在重組他們的偏見而已。

威廉
詹姆士
1942-1910



The truth will set you free. But before it does , it might make you angry.

Jerry Joiner, adapted

真理將解放你,但是,在解放你之前,他可能讓你憤怒。

杰瑞
瓊那
,改寫



If you make people think they are think'ing , they will love you; but if you really make them think , the will hate you.

Don Marquis (1878-1937)

如果你讓人們認為他們在思考,他們會愛你,但是,如果你讓他們真正的思考,他們會恨你。


馬奎斯(1878-1937



He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.

Sir William Drummond(1585-1649)

不願思考的是機器人;不能思考的是笨蛋;不敢思考的是奴隸。

威廉
度拉們
爵士(1585-1649



We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark, the real tragedy of life is when adult is afraid of the light.

Plato(427-347 B.C)

我們很容易原諒害怕黑暗的小孩,生命真正的悲劇是害怕光明的成人。

柏拉圖(西元前427-347



I'm going to turn on the light, and we'll be two people in a room looking at each other and wondering why on earth we were afraid of the dark.

Gale Wilhelm

我將要點亮燈火,我們兩人將在斗室中相望,並且疑惑著,為什麼我們害怕黑暗。

蓋而
威漢



Come to the edge, He said. The said: we are afraid . Come to the edge, He said, The came. He pushed them , and they flew---

Guillaume Apollinaire(1880-1918)

到邊邊來,他說。他們回答:我們怕。到邊邊來,他再說。他們過來了。他一推,他們就飛起來了------

奎勞
阿鄱涅(1880-1918



The high-minded man must care more for what's right than for what people think.

Aristotle(384-22B.C),adapted

心靈高尚的人必須關切什麼是正義的,而不是眾人的說法。

亞里斯多德(西元前384-22,改寫