罗素语录
To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
需求对象的残缺不全，正是幸福的必不可少的条件之一。
——罗素《幸福之路》
A great many worries can be diminished by realizing the unimportance of the matter which is causing anxiety.
通过认识到那些引起焦虑的事物并不重要，可以缓解大部分忧虑。
——罗素《幸福之路》
Next to worry probably one of the most potent causes of unhappiness is envy.
除了担心，嫉妒也许是不幸福的最大原因之一。
——罗素《幸福之路》
A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy can live.
幸福的生活在很大程度上肯定是一种平静安逸的生活，因为只有在平静的环境里，真正的快乐才能得以存在。
——罗素《幸福之路》
The secret to happiness is this: Let your interest be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.
幸福的秘诀是：尽量扩大你的兴趣范围，对感兴趣的人和物尽可能友善。
——罗素《幸福之路》
But very largely it is due to a diminishing preoccupation with myself.
幸福的获得，在极大的程度上是由于消除了对自我的过分关注。
——罗素《幸福之路》
真正的漠视舆论是一种力量，同时又是幸福之源。
——罗素《幸福之路》
The more things a man is interested in, the more opportunities of happiness he has and the less he is at the mercy of fate, since if he loses one thing he can fall back upon another.
一个人的兴趣越广泛，他拥有的快乐机会就越多，而受命运播弄的可能性也就越小，因为即使失去了某一种兴趣，他仍然可以转向另一种。
——罗素《幸福之路》
一般情况下，虚荣心的根源就在于自信心的缺乏，疗法在于培养自尊。
——罗素《幸福之路》
厌烦是一个极端重要的问题，因为人类的恶行中，至少有一半是由于对厌烦的恐惧引起的。
——罗素《幸福之路》
太多的旅行，太多的形形色色的感性东西，对青少年并没有好处，因为这会使得他们长大以后缺少忍受寂寞生活的能力，而唯有寂寞才能使人有所创造。我当然不是说寂寞生活本身有什么好处，我的意思是说，只有伴以一定程度的寂寞，某些美好的东西才有可能被人获得。
——罗素《幸福之路》
Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
恐惧是迷信的根源，也是造成残忍的主要原因之一。 智慧始于征服恐惧。
——罗素 《非通俗文选》
If an opinion contrary to your own makes you angry, that is a sign that you are subconsciously aware of having no good reason for thinking as you do.
如果一个跟你相反的观点让你生气的话， 那就表明在潜意识里你明白你那么想并没有充足的理由。
——罗素 《非通俗文选》
That Man is the product of causes which had no prevision of the end they were achieving; that his origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his loves and his beliefs, are but the outcome of accidental collocations of atoms; that no fire, no heroism, no intensity of thought and feeling, can preserve an individual life beyond the grave; that all the labours of the ages, all the devotion, all the inspiration, all the noonday brightness of human genius, are destined to extinction in the vast death of the solar system, and that the whole temple of Man’s achievement must inevitably be buried beneath the débris of a universe in ruins—all these things, if not quite beyond dispute, are yet so nearly certain, that no philosophy which rejects them can hope to stand. Only within the scaffolding of these truths, only on the firm foundation of unyielding despair, can the soul’s habitation henceforth be safely built.
人是各种起因的产物，这些起因对它们正在走向末日毫无预见性；他的出生、成长、希望和恐惧、爱以及信仰，都不过是原子偶然聚集的结果，火、英雄主义、强烈的思想或感情都不能永生不死；这个时代所有劳动，所有专心，所有灵感，人类智慧在最辉煌时候的所有光芒，都注定要在太阳系的莫大死亡中灭绝；还有，人类成就的整个殿堂必不可免埋在宇宙瓦砾的废墟之下——所有这些虽然远没有摆脱争论，但还是如此近乎肯定，没有反对它们的哲学成立。只有在这些事实的框架内，只有在彻底绝望的牢固基础上，才能安全地建造灵魂的家园。
——贝特兰•罗素《一个自由人的崇拜》
Only on the firm foundation of unyielding despair, can the soul's habitation henceforth be safely built.
只有在彻底绝望的牢固基础上，才能安全地建造灵魂的家园。
——贝特兰•罗素《一个自由人的崇拜》
To realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom.
意识到时间并不重要乃是智慧之门。
——伯特兰•罗素 《神秘主义与逻辑及其他论文》
Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.
一个人出生时是无知的，但并不愚蠢，他是受了教育后变得愚蠢的。
——罗素《西方哲学史》
Philosophy, as I shall understand the word, is something intermediate between theology and science.
哲学，就我对这个词的理解来说，乃是某种介乎神学与科学之间的东西。
——罗素《西方哲学史》
A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.
一个蠢人复述一个聪明人所说的话时总是不精确的，因为他会无意中把他听到的话翻译成他所能理解的语言。
——罗素《西方哲学史》
To teach how to live without certainty, and yet without being paralyzed by hesitation, is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can still do for those who study it.
教导人们在不能确定时怎样生活下去而又不致为犹疑所困扰，也许这就是哲学在我们的时代仍然能为学哲学的人所作出的主要事情了。
——罗素《西方哲学史》
The search for something permanent is one of the deepest of the instincts leading men to philosophy.
追求一种永恒的东西乃是引人研究哲学的最根深蒂固的本能之一。
——罗素《西方哲学史》
Diversity is essential to happiness.
须知参差多态，乃是幸福之本源。
——罗素《西方哲学史》
哲学在其全部历史中一直是由两个不调和地混杂在一起的部分构成的：一方面是关于世界本性的理论，另一方面是关于最佳生活方式的伦理学说或政治学说。
——罗素《西方哲学史》
至高的幸福是建立在幻想上的幸福，因为它的代价最低：想像自己为王比实际成王要容易。
——罗素《西方哲学史》
The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.
一个观点已被广泛持有的事实并不能证明它不是荒谬绝伦的。
——罗素《婚姻与道德》
Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.
我认为不要绝对地确定乃是理性中最为关键的一点。
——罗素《为什么我不是基督教徒》
给许多无害的行为贴上“罪”的标签，但又宽恕那些做出这种行为的人，这也许是一种明智的社会制度的真髓。这样就可以在不损害任何人的情况下获得邪恶的快乐。
——罗素《为什么我不是基督教徒》
Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.
言论自由只有在政府认为它自身安全的时候才存在。
——罗素
Desires keep man restless even in Paradise.
欲望使人即使到了天堂也会坐立不安。
——罗素
It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.
使我们无法自由和高尚地活着的最主要原因是对财富的迷恋。
——罗素
The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
世界充满了神奇的东西，它们在耐心地等待我们变得更有智慧。
——罗素
The fundamental defect of fathers is that they want their children to be a credit to them.
父亲们最根本的缺点，在于想要自己的孩子为自己争光。
——罗素
The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.
所有你乐于挥霍的时间，都不算作浪费。
——罗素
War does not determine who is right - only who is left.
战争并不决定谁对了，只决定谁留下了。
——罗素
I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
我绝不会为我的信仰献身，因为我可能是错的。
——罗素
We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.
我们面临这样一个进退两难的境地，那就是教育已经成为智慧和自由思想最主要的障碍之一。
——罗素
Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom.
即便时间不是幻觉，一个人在思想和感情里，能够意识到时间并不重要，乃是智慧之门。
——伯特兰•罗素 《神秘主义与逻辑及其他论文》
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