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。
珍 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 Ｈ. 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。
唐 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
