Bertrand Russell - Interview on BBC - 1959

问：假设这段录像，将被我们的后人看到，如同死海古卷一般，在一千年后被人看见。你觉得有什么该对他们那一代人说的呢？有关您的一生，以及一生的感悟。

BBC：Suppose Lord Russell this film were to be looked by our desendants like a dead-sea scroll in a thousand years time. What would you think it's worth telling that generation about the live you lived and the lessons you've learnt from it?

罗素：我想要说两点，其一关乎智慧，其二关乎道德。

Russell: I should like to say two things. One intellectual and one moral.

有关智慧，我想对他们说的是：不管你是在研究什么事物，还是在思考任何观点，只问你自己，事实是什么，以及这些事实所证实的真理是什么。永远不要让自己被自己所更愿意相信的，或者认为人们相信了，会对社会更加有益的东西所影响。只是单单去审视，什么才是事实。这是我想说的，关于智慧的一点。

The intellectual thing I should like to say to them is this: When you are studying any matter or considering any philosophy, ask yourself only what are the facts and what is the truth to the facts bear out. Never let yourself be diverted either by what you wish to believe or by what you think could have been efficient social effects if it were believed. But look only and surely at what are the facts. That is the intellectual thing that I wish to say.

我想对他们说的有关道德的一点，十分简单。我要说：爱是明智的，恨是愚蠢的。在这个日益紧密相连的世界，我们必须学会容忍彼此，我们必须学会接受这样一个事实：总会有人说出我们不想听的话。只有这样，我们才有可能共同生存。而假如我们想要共存，而非共亡，我们就必须学会这种宽容与忍让，因为它们对于人类在这个星球上的存续，是至关重要的。

The moral thing I should wish to say to them is very simple. I should say: Love is wise, hatred is foolish. In this world which is getting more and more closely interconnected, we have to learn to tolerate each other, we have to learn to put up with the fact that some people say things we don't like. We can only live together in that way. And if we are to live together and not die together, we must learn the kind of clarity and kind of tolerance, which is absolutely vital to the continuation of human life on this planet.